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Nah, I'm just bored and restless.

In two hours I'll be drinking beer and prepare for tonight's sittning.

Sittning

Wikipedia never ceases to amaze me.

Epignosis wrote:

Then there's this.

Man, I wish we had culture. Disapprove

Ah yes. Snaps Approve

Plum snaps?

And Oxfordman is here.

LinusW wrote:

Why blue?

Because it looks cool Tongue

But should i have THIS, THIS, THIS or THIS?
I'm leaning towards the first or second one Tongue

The second looks bad, I would have gone for the first. Actually all of them look bad except the first.

It's on PA!

Epignosis wrote:

Then there's this.

Man, I wish we had culture. Disapprove

Ah, I know it as Schnaps. Wink

James wrote:

TGM: Orb wrote:

Henry Plainview wrote:

DAMN YOU ROB YOU ARE STEALING MY DREAM! Well at least you're not going to Magdalen, then I'd have to kill you. ;-) I looked on the map, and St Hugh's isn't that far away! Five minute bus ride, tops. ;-) By the way, my professor when I was in England told me that nobody cares that you went to Oxford unless you get a First, do you think that's true?

I think wondering why test scores have increased dramatically is a valid concern. I don't think the students can be changing all that much, but the material could be.

@1, Mwahahahaha! And I don't reckon that's the case; there's a helluvalotofprestige in the Oxbridge reputation, and it's actually known vaguely outside the UK as well, which helps.

It's probably valid, but nonetheless quite annoying. I reckon it's mostly just that the exam boards are getting more and more predictable and consequently in any school where people listen to their teachers they get taught how to pass exams better rather than the exams getting 'easier' per se.

Nah.

Not so.

I think many exams have been dumbed down. Plus the Internet is your friend. When I took my GCSEs, I didn't have access to the Internet. I had to go to a crappy local library that had books that were of very little help. Plus my writing was atrocious; which means the exam boards probably had difficulty reading what I wrote. Some of the typed out essays I got better marks on than the written out ones too.

Plus the teaching at times was mediocre and some of the subject matter was rather dull too. I had terrible time revising. I believe I would have got on better revising in a group, with others. I had to basically read some of my books on my own and try and understand them.

In Internet age, life is so much easier.

Some exams are a bit easier, yes. Latin's been cut down a bit, Greek's been cut down a bit in theory, but hasn't changed that much in practice.

Internet = yes. Writing = well, mine's awful, too. Subject matter = still pretty dull depending on what you do. Teaching = varies; sure it's lousy in a lot of places today. Admit I probably had it pretty good in that respect; personally, I think it's more about an atmosphere of achievement than what you're actually taught.

I think it's mostly exams getting more predictable and remarks being all over the place.