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What I'm pointing out is the fact that GCSEs are easier, than O'levels but are taken as been the same academically.
When they aren't.......
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When they aren't.......
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I agree most educational attainment has been adjusted……or are we just grumpy old men with rose tinted glasses of the old days!
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When we were younger it was when bl built cars with distributors on the front of engines where they got wet. Diesels now start first attempt.Yea but it's typical media hype...if a couple of diesel's fail to start we dont see headlines about fundamentally flawed diesel engines!
When I was a kid there were streets full of broken ICE cars whenever it snowed. The usual trade for a lift to school was a push start!
It's been cold in London...we're using our EV because it has remote defrost via the phone so no scraping away at the windscreen
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I don't recall our school sending letters out to parents complaining about 20% truancy in year 11 (that is 5th year in old money), which is what has happened recently. There were only a few brave souls who would risk the deputy head's displeasure.
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It was a real shock in 1972 to leave secondary school (i did CSE) and start ONC with many of the grammar school lads who were well ahead on maths level. Once we had adjusted to being well paid (compared to 50p paper delivery) and sampled drink and girlfriends the playing field was levelled.
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Sounds a lot like the user being clueless , unable as to comprehend the user manual or think things through , so squawks like a cockerel about to get it's neck wrung .It didn't even get very cold.
Tesla electric vehicles left abandoned after freezing temperatures drain batteries - 'It's a disaster!'
AA President Edmund King urged motorists to preheat their cars in the morning before setting offwww.gbnews.com
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This morning at 0600 hrs . some time duringthe night we had about -7 oC of frost . Put the E Berlingo sun visors down to roll the heat round the front screen and set the heat to 22 oC ...... it had totally defrosted in about two minutesYea but it's typical media hype...if a couple of diesel's fail to start we dont see headlines about fundamentally flawed diesel engines!
When I was a kid there were streets full of broken ICE cars whenever it snowed. The usual trade for a lift to school was a push start!
It's been cold in London...we're using our EV because it has remote defrost via the phone so no scraping away at the windscreen
On any heat producing object
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A trained 26 yr old surveyor turned up to help me set out the levels of an 80 degree slope over an area of 20 mtrs by 40 mtrs .
Sorry Dave I can't do it the batteries are flat , he bleatd. ...... He was amazed when I laid a mtr of thin tube on a decent 6 foot level and got him to tape up stakes for me . Even more gobsmacked when I did the 3, 4, 5 triangle for right angles using a str120 KG bs Dacrom seafishing line pulled taut & tied to horizontals using nails at the cross over points as well as tied on knots on the Dacron to mark the 3 & 4 points
A few months late as we were ready to errect the portal building he turned up as he was passing by . Using his electronic stuff he was amazed I'd got it as good as any site he'd surveyed.
I asked him how did he think the pyramid master mason builders got such an accuracy if it wasn't for maths and reasoning .
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Farside , don't you recall having to tie thick hessian corn sacks or fit special mufflers over front engined car radiators in severe frosty weather .? It's also a good reason to point radiator ends of cars to a wall so th wind chill does not kill the anti freeze treated coolant . I Germany we had three bottle of different antifreeze strengths on a shelf out side our guardrooms in the winter months . They were checked for crystals of ice every 20 min in severe cold weather .
Three time in 15 yrs of service life I was dragged out my slumbers to get dressed as warm as I could and go and help drain all vehicle rads of trucks parked outside as the temp was south of - 25 oC
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There are still plenty of bright, extremely hard working youngsters that come through the system, often despite.
It's worth noting that, GCE,GCSE, O, A and T levels are pretty much irrelevant if you going into the STEM field. They are just a stepping stone to university, which is a stepping stone to a masters, which is a stepping stone to a PhD. And then your real education starts when you actually get into research.
So while it is disappointing that school standards are slipping, and it means more catching up at uni, it doesn't necessarily equate to less quality out the other end. It takes an incredible amount of work to get through the system, which has the effect of sorting the wheat from the chaff, so to speak.
Still, it would be nice to see STEM encouraged at all levels to get kids interested while they are young IMO.
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Back in 2009 we had to cut out the concrete wall to allow the new tyne tunnel under-water sections to be connected at each end to the cut & cover land sections. We had setting out responsibility so we hired an agency engineer. An old Welsh fella turned up one day and set it all out with a tape measure and plumb bob. I got hauled into the office to explain why we weren't doing it 'properly' with a EDM or total station. I asked the engineer and he said we were only cutting vertical cuts so what was the point when gravity still worked and he had 200mm clearance each side anyway.
They hired another engineer to check his work with a warning that if it was wrong we would have to pay for the second guy. He spent all day with his total station to confirm that the cuts were correct to 2mm over 24 metres straight down.
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No. I gave my 1966 maths 'O' level paper to a friend, a maths teacher. He took it in to show colleagues. They were astounded at the level if the questions.
In my opinion the great dumbing down started with the GCSEs.
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Thats all to do with a lack of basic discipline and respect for the system. Just like these little scrotes zipping round the streets thinking they can do what they like because they are wanna be gangsta….a separate topic really.
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Did he mention aliens?
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All this amazes me really. The Romans and their straight roads are quite easy to figure. I used to live near to Strood in Kent. We used to play on the railway sidings there, and all the other mischief, but there is the Strood railway tunnel that runs from Strood to Higham. Built originally as a canal tunnel in 1830ish, (you can find the history online if interested) It is two and a half miles long through chalk, and if you stand in the middle of tracks, which I have, you can see the light at the other end !
Apparently they started from both ends. How did they do that ??
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I've been away this week, very nice stepping out of a hotel to a warm, defrosted car
Preconditioning the battery is done by putting the charging station as the sat nav destination, in the cold if I don't do that it charges at about 18kw until the battery warms up, usually takes 10 mins or so
This is what I think when I see people scraping ice off their windscreen, instead of using an app while having breakfast
Preconditioning the battery is done by putting the charging station as the sat nav destination, in the cold if I don't do that it charges at about 18kw until the battery warms up, usually takes 10 mins or so
This is what I think when I see people scraping ice off their windscreen, instead of using an app while having breakfast
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Agree ...but important to remember it's the exams that they dumbed down ...not the people taking them!
I did GCSEs...as said above they were just a stepping stone to something else.
I got 10 GCSEs ....if I had done O'levels maybe would have got 5 but that would still have been a great result. I don't think anyone assumes they're 1-1.
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Very true. However, if you're not given the tools to make learning easier, you're at a distinct disadvantage.
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And if the "lid is kept on the jar", the same will apply.
