Matthew

Will I really would love to see these statistics of yours which you are talking about and how exactly they prove that the exams are getting easier - and definitely not that Britain as a whole is becoming more intelligent and that teaching standards are improving.Also, as you seem to think that because you have friends who have ties with education that they are clearly correct, I believe I have every right to present my side if you feel that your friends are really reliable.Every year without fail, newspapers print the whole "exams are getting easier lark" because it sells papers playing on the "it was better in my day" feeling that old people love. It sells papers because they just love being told it was better for them. Today's media hates young people. The Daily Mail really emphasises on all the "youths" getting all A*s, how could a knife bearing, hoody wearing, fox beating, mephedrone taking bunch of alocholic underage and pregnant teens succeed in life?It has to be the exams getting easier.After all that money invested in education, new ways of teaching, support for students - it is unmistakably and definitely that the exams are getting easier.Teachers slave away their lives trying to get people through their exams, many of them working out of hours for people to get their As, Bs and Cs. However, I do accept that on occassions that, for example, AQA have been accused of making their exams easier. But that is not justification that all exams across the board are getting easier as those exams which are highlighted as being easier than usual are always subjected to extreme scrutiny from loads of people to make sure they're up to scratch.Finally, anyone who did the C3 paper this June will agree with me that it was probably the most difficult GCSE chemistry paper ever and it compared to none of the past papers.urgh I really cannot stand people who are just so insensitive.EDIT: Well someone's just shot themselves in the foot there.100% of people do not like clapping their hands.I'm afraid the statistics do not lie.

I'm very pleased with my results and really surprised myself with what I got - revision definitely paid off! Well done everyone. And I was reading few pages back about the whole exams getting easier thingy. Tbh I think it really can be quite hurtful to people doing their exams when all their efforts are just rubbished when they're told that their grades weren't hard to achieve - aka as hard as they would have been say 5, 10 years ago. I think everyone should be extremely proud of themselves. Well done again everyone

Just reading through and already spotted a spelling mistake from thorpe: "Planting of native species within six meters from the water edge at Thorpe Park" Schoolboy error!Either way this has definitely made me more excited about the next 6 years at Thorpe!

Oh by the way b*tch...

These shoes rule... these shoes SUCK... these shoes rule... these shoes SUCK!

Yeah, first off - Chessington's one and Thorpe's were actually different rides. And S&S don't manufacture a 3 swing screaming-swing. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't work either, having two swings going one way, and just one the other. I dunno, but it'd probably fall down.It's not doing any harm to anyone, Thorpe like it, the general public like it and I guess it does kind of cater for the audience who don't really fancy huge roller coasters.

Harry Potter books, I've never known how to pronounce 'Xenophilius'Is it "Zenno fee leeyus" or something?*shakes fist at JK*Actually I might get Google Translate to say it for me

Really excited, going to see the Queen and Gordon Brown tomorrow

Maths <3, it's the universal language and I love the fact that it just ... works

Bit of a sad random post, but I feel awfully lonely right now

Woah I haven't posted in this forum for ages now,Just thought I'd say hi to everyone from here.Hi.

I'm getting so annoyed at the AQA french listening tapes. They have the really nice lady voice, really full, relatively deep and you can hear clearlyYou have a man, nice deep and full voice which is clear and you can hear properly.And then they throw in the woman who has the really high pitched voice, which makes the tape recorder resonate, so all you can hear is a "VVvvvvVVvvVVvvVVvvvvv?" o_0.driving me insane!

Trains (bar SWT) FTW!In ear or On ear headphones?

DucksFrench or Saunders?

I believe that the voice is Jonathan Kydd, he also does Colgate adverts too.He's got a very nice voice

Tough one,I love Girls aloud and Lady Gaga, hmm ... Lady GaGaHow about fat chips or thin chips?