Coursework? What coursework?
Back in the days of GCSE, because I was in the clever classes for most of my subjects, this meant that I also did GCSE Statistics. Our Maths teacher (great bloke, used to let us play cards in lessons (until my mate decided to build a house of cards instead), and got his wife to sign a detention slip I gave him when he stole my pen) told us right from the off that the coursework/exam ratio for the final grade was about 50/50.

Cue the coursework time and I messed around loads. I did write out a survey which I distributed, and compiled the results and created a few perfunctory graphs in Excel.

The time came for the coursework to be returned marked, and my maths teacher (lets call him Roger, for twas his name) didn't give me mine back and asked if I could stay back for a moment at the end of the lesson.

I got 9 marks. I don't know how many the average GCSE Coursework marks scheme goes up to, but the 9 was exceptionally low. He said that it would be easier for me to redo it completely rather than try and improve what I had. I did better in the Statistics module of GCSE Maths than I did in the actual GCSE Statistics.

Because of this and the lack of time, he was going to have to reduce my predicted grade from a B to a U, and he was - as teachers often are - ashamed on my behalf because I could have done so much better. He also said that there probably wasn't much point in me taking the exam either.

I did sit the exam.

Cue results day. I looked at my results, and saw that I got a B in Statistics.

I got the grade that I had been predicted without doing the coursework.

If I had done the coursework properly, this would have been the only subject I got an A in.

Then again, what can one do with an A* in GCSE Statistics?

Length? about 2 hours if I remember
(richietheg my dad buries dead people. he's an undertaker., Sun 16 Aug 2009, 17:29, 1 reply)

Then again, what can one do with an A* in GCSE Statistics?
I don't know, but I've got A-level Statistics and consider myself to be a non-standard deviation.

/in joke
( john3ners has relocated to the Highlands, Sun 16 Aug 2009, 21:42, closed)