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rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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CCEThis is significantly crap compared to what I should've got =[
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Captain V, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 11:49,
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I was amazed when I got to uniI got BCD, which scraped me onto the course, and most of my coursemates had all As. Didn't stop them being pretty dumb though.
I came to the conclusion a while ago that exams are a very shit way of testing people.
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 11:56,
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I disagree with thisI got AABB and then a first in my BSc, so exams were an excellent way of testing me.
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I didn't mean the gradesUsing exams to measure aptitude might benefit you greatly but that doesn't mean they're a great way of measuring your aptitude.
Sure you might be relatively worse off if a method of testing that has stronger correlation between indicated performance and actual performance were introduced but it'd still be a better way of testing you.
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Captain V, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 12:10,
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I got AACAnd a 2 on the Chemistry Special paper. But then I only got a 2-2 for my degree. I suspect the introduction of serious quantities of alcohol may have played a part in this dramatic slide.
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The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 12:07,
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I had the same experienceI was lucky that only Oxford needed good grades to get in (I think it was AAB at the time) and Cardiff only wanted BBB. It still surprised me that I was one of the most capable students there (especially given the episodes I was having at the time).
I say it all the time; I'd love to go back. It'll be very hard to choose between chemistry and a computing based degree though.
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