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stablepeach
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PostPosted: 11:00 - 27 Aug 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
Also aren't there quite a lot of intern schemes, apprenticeships etc. where A levels are the entry requirements and so a slip in grades will affect your ability to even apply?
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PostPosted: 11:48 - 27 Aug 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
stinkwheel wrote:
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You are correct. A Levels grant a child access to the year of 'trials' that is the first year of a degree course. Friends of ours who happen to be university tutors say that kids learn nothing of any use in Year 1 of a degree. The purpose of year 1 is to separate those that can go on and learn from those that can't. Year 1 is all about survival and the break from apron-strings...


Not the case in veterinary medicine. The purpose of year one is to teach you an unimagineable amount of stuff that makes A-levels look like a walk in the park, ready for year 2 where they take it to the next level. And so-on.



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PostPosted: 23:05 - 27 Aug 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
Kawasaki Jimbo wrote:
Am I right in thinking that 'A' levels are still only entry tickets to a higher education degree course..


No read up a few posts, my eldest got in to Uni, with a Btec level 3. His requirement were DDMM or BBB at A'level.
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PostPosted: 23:09 - 27 Aug 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
Diggs wrote:
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There is the factor that some kids might not have a laptop or tablet



Aye, I'll be paying a visit to the big fella' at PCX to get a SSD in one of ours, so my daughter has a fighting chance of being able to Zoom on it when she starts at Greenhead in a few days....


2nd Son is at Greenhead and they were shxt after the lock down, perhaps one 30 minute Spanish Zoom call every 2 weeks. Everything else was print a PDF. Also not impressed, they are going back to alternate weeks, again states schools not even trying.
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PostPosted: 23:34 - 27 Aug 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
kawakid wrote:
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Am I right in thinking that 'A' levels are still only entry tickets to a higher education degree course..


No read up a few posts, my eldest got in to Uni, with a Btec level 3. His requirement were DDMM or BBB at A'level.

My point was that once you're at Uni your A-level (or BTEC) grades don't matter, at Uni or in subsequent job applications.
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PostPosted: 23:05 - 28 Aug 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
No your grades don't matter.

In fact when I went to Polytechnic (remember them), I did a HND.

Nobody cared about the grades, every interview question was on my sandwich year.
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For anyone who says the teachers didn't try their best to get their pupils to have grades way above where they should be....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-53846874
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PostPosted: 21:28 - 02 Sep 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
Of course they will.

High grades do not only benefit the students, they are good for the teachers as well.

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