So as many of you will know there has been many tales of disappointment regarding the results of many of the AS exams. I know that we got our results quite a while back but I needed time to digest and consider before writing this post.
I am quite angry with the outcome of the results as I imagine quite a lot of us are and because of this there is a high probability that this will become more of a rant than an observation of society. Sorry for that.
It seems to me to be grossly unfair that the majority of us put our hearts, souls and a hell of a lot of effort into revising for the exams just to open that horribly terrifying brown envelope and be faced with, in my case, the potential of 4 retakes.
I feel as though a mixture of the exam boards and the school have, for want of a better phrase, 'screwed us over' and we are having to pick up the pieces of our hopes and piece then together again on retake forms and open AS folders which, incidentally, we were hoping we would never have to open again.
How is this fair?
To top it all off, Michael Gove has decided that modules exams are to easy and that they should be scrapped for "all in one go" exams. When I heard that I laughed so sarcastically I surprised myself. These politicians really do not have a clue do they. Has he failed to notice the results of this year? Is in trying to hugely reduce the number of university applicants - first the £9000 tuition fee and now this -what's next tie us to our schools and only release us if we can recite the entire Latin dictionary backwards?
The conservative party are so laughably removed from the real world. They were fine in the good old days when exams were hard because they could call on their private tutor to help them revise a difficult question. Or they could buy themselves an A by putting the family name of the doorway of the 'Gove Building' and this in turn would ensure that they received the best possible teaching.
The rest of us 'plebs' - the words of Andrew Mitchelle not me - have to work hard for months to get to the next step on our educational career to then receive bad grades and have the education secretary tell us that exams are to easy.
As I said at the beginning of this post I am sorry that this really has turned out to be nothing more than an angry and frustrated rant. However I am sure that there are other people out there who feel just the same as I and to be perfectly honest I feel that it had to be said.
