Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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This years cohort do seem to have had the worst of all worlds. Two years of crappy interrupted teaching, followed by having to sit full in person exams.TheBigBean said:I'd like to post this in the Education thread, but I can't find it.
Getting close to that time of year. Results are going to be lower than the two previous years and that is so unfair.
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Meanwhile universities seem to be churning out utter dross.0 -
Surely thousands won't miss out on university places due to lower marks, the universities will just accept lower grades. Otherwise they'd have a load of empty seats.TheBigBean said:
I'd like to post this in the Education thread, but I can't find it.
Getting close to that time of year. Results are going to be lower than the two previous years and that is so unfair.
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Universities deferred some places, because the higher results in the last two years meant fewer candidates missed their offers. As a result, I expect there to be fewer places available this year.monkimark said:Surely thousands won't miss out on university places due to lower marks, the universities will just accept lower grades. Otherwise they'd have a load of empty seats.
TheBigBean said:I'd like to post this in the Education thread, but I can't find it.
Getting close to that time of year. Results are going to be lower than the two previous years and that is so unfair.
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Yes, they have, but this is the impact of the overly generous approach to grading previously. I think I said at the time that it would be unfair on subsequent yearsJezyboy said:
This years cohort do seem to have had the worst of all worlds. Two years of crappy interrupted teaching, followed by having to sit full in person exams.TheBigBean said:I'd like to post this in the Education thread, but I can't find it.
Getting close to that time of year. Results are going to be lower than the two previous years and that is so unfair.
https://archive.ph/I6s2U
Meanwhile universities seem to be churning out utter dross.0 -
Small sample (up to 8 students per year over 20 years) but my mother once looked at the grades of students coming into her class and compared them with the final grade they came out on. Fairly back-of-a-fag-packet stuff but she saw no correlation.
Taken in the context of there is a high bare minimum to get in, plus they need to pass the interview etc, but still.0 -
Is there sufficient variation in their grades to be noticeable?rick_chasey said:Small sample (up to 8 students per year over 20 years) but my mother once looked at the grades of students coming into her class and compared them with the final grade they came out on. Fairly back-of-a-censored -packet stuff but she saw no correlation.
Taken in the context of there is a high bare minimum to get in, plus they need to pass the interview etc, but still.
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The biggest issue will be the endless stream of poor me snowflake interviews passing as "news".0
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I think so, if you think the difference between A, A*, A** etc is sufficient variation.Jezyboy said:
Is there sufficient variation in their grades to be noticeable?rick_chasey said:Small sample (up to 8 students per year over 20 years) but my mother once looked at the grades of students coming into her class and compared them with the final grade they came out on. Fairly back-of-a-censored -packet stuff but she saw no correlation.
Taken in the context of there is a high bare minimum to get in, plus they need to pass the interview etc, but still.
She did the same for private school/state school students and state school students performed better.
Latter is not surprising as you'd imagine the bar to clear to get into Cambridge from a state school is higher.0 -
I had thought Cambridge entry requirements were pretty much straight As when I did UCAS, so would now be straight A*s?rick_chasey said:
I think so, if you think the difference between A, A*, A** etc is sufficient variation.Jezyboy said:
Is there sufficient variation in their grades to be noticeable?rick_chasey said:Small sample (up to 8 students per year over 20 years) but my mother once looked at the grades of students coming into her class and compared them with the final grade they came out on. Fairly back-of-a-censored -packet stuff but she saw no correlation.
Taken in the context of there is a high bare minimum to get in, plus they need to pass the interview etc, but still.
She did the same for private school/state school students and state school students performed better.
Latter is not surprising as you'd imagine the bar to clear to get into Cambridge from a state school is higher.
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Yea it's tiring hearing boomers say how much more difficult it was in their day, but we'll manage.First.Aspect said:The biggest issue will be the endless stream of poor me snowflake interviews passing as "news".
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They tweak it for where you go to school, unsurprisingly.Jezyboy said:
I had thought Cambridge entry requirements were pretty much straight As when I did UCAS, so would now be straight A*s?rick_chasey said:
I think so, if you think the difference between A, A*, A** etc is sufficient variation.Jezyboy said:
Is there sufficient variation in their grades to be noticeable?rick_chasey said:Small sample (up to 8 students per year over 20 years) but my mother once looked at the grades of students coming into her class and compared them with the final grade they came out on. Fairly back-of-a-censored -packet stuff but she saw no correlation.
Taken in the context of there is a high bare minimum to get in, plus they need to pass the interview etc, but still.
She did the same for private school/state school students and state school students performed better.
Latter is not surprising as you'd imagine the bar to clear to get into Cambridge from a state school is higher.0 -
Has Rick hacked your account?Jezyboy said:
Yea it's tiring hearing boomers say how much more difficult it was in their day, but we'll manage.First.Aspect said:The biggest issue will be the endless stream of poor me snowflake interviews passing as "news".
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]1 -
Efficiency innit.
Neatly summing up one of the country's problems.rick_chasey said:
I think so, if you think the difference between A, A*, A** etc is sufficient variation.Jezyboy said:
Is there sufficient variation in their grades to be noticeable?rick_chasey said:Small sample (up to 8 students per year over 20 years) but my mother once looked at the grades of students coming into her class and compared them with the final grade they came out on. Fairly back-of-a-censored -packet stuff but she saw no correlation.
Taken in the context of there is a high bare minimum to get in, plus they need to pass the interview etc, but still.
She did the same for private school/state school students and state school students performed better.
Latter is not surprising as you'd imagine the bar to clear to get into Cambridge from a state school is higher.
One of many.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
I doubt they do. They have quotas I think. So a bit of a Rooney rule when if comes to offering interviews.rick_chasey said:
They tweak it for where you go to school, unsurprisingly.Jezyboy said:
I had thought Cambridge entry requirements were pretty much straight As when I did UCAS, so would now be straight A*s?rick_chasey said:
I think so, if you think the difference between A, A*, A** etc is sufficient variation.Jezyboy said:
Is there sufficient variation in their grades to be noticeable?rick_chasey said:Small sample (up to 8 students per year over 20 years) but my mother once looked at the grades of students coming into her class and compared them with the final grade they came out on. Fairly back-of-a-censored -packet stuff but she saw no correlation.
Taken in the context of there is a high bare minimum to get in, plus they need to pass the interview etc, but still.
She did the same for private school/state school students and state school students performed better.
Latter is not surprising as you'd imagine the bar to clear to get into Cambridge from a state school is higher.
But then there are state schools and then there are state schools aren't there? And going to one in an affluent leafy suburb probably gives you a better chance than if you apply from a struggling academy that has no prior experience of coaching people for Oxbridge interviews.0 -
So they do tweak them for where you go to school, and it is exactly for those "struggling academies that have no prior experience of coaching people for Oxbridge interviews", and not just done on a "private/state" basis.First.Aspect said:
I doubt they do. They have quotas I think. So a bit of a Rooney rule when if comes to offering interviews.rick_chasey said:
They tweak it for where you go to school, unsurprisingly.Jezyboy said:
I had thought Cambridge entry requirements were pretty much straight As when I did UCAS, so would now be straight A*s?rick_chasey said:
I think so, if you think the difference between A, A*, A** etc is sufficient variation.Jezyboy said:
Is there sufficient variation in their grades to be noticeable?rick_chasey said:Small sample (up to 8 students per year over 20 years) but my mother once looked at the grades of students coming into her class and compared them with the final grade they came out on. Fairly back-of-a-censored -packet stuff but she saw no correlation.
Taken in the context of there is a high bare minimum to get in, plus they need to pass the interview etc, but still.
She did the same for private school/state school students and state school students performed better.
Latter is not surprising as you'd imagine the bar to clear to get into Cambridge from a state school is higher.
But then there are state schools and then there are state schools aren't there? And going to one in an affluent leafy suburb probably gives you a better chance than if you apply from a struggling academy that has no prior experience of coaching people for Oxbridge interviews.
Obviously some professors are better at adjusting their interview style than others for the sake of inclusivity.
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Have you got an FT link or tweet on that for us?rick_chasey said:
So they do tweak them for where you go to school, and it is exactly for those "struggling academies that have no prior experience of coaching people for Oxbridge interviews", and not just done on a "private/state" basis.First.Aspect said:
I doubt they do. They have quotas I think. So a bit of a Rooney rule when if comes to offering interviews.rick_chasey said:
They tweak it for where you go to school, unsurprisingly.Jezyboy said:
I had thought Cambridge entry requirements were pretty much straight As when I did UCAS, so would now be straight A*s?rick_chasey said:
I think so, if you think the difference between A, A*, A** etc is sufficient variation.Jezyboy said:
Is there sufficient variation in their grades to be noticeable?rick_chasey said:Small sample (up to 8 students per year over 20 years) but my mother once looked at the grades of students coming into her class and compared them with the final grade they came out on. Fairly back-of-a-censored -packet stuff but she saw no correlation.
Taken in the context of there is a high bare minimum to get in, plus they need to pass the interview etc, but still.
She did the same for private school/state school students and state school students performed better.
Latter is not surprising as you'd imagine the bar to clear to get into Cambridge from a state school is higher.
But then there are state schools and then there are state schools aren't there? And going to one in an affluent leafy suburb probably gives you a better chance than if you apply from a struggling academy that has no prior experience of coaching people for Oxbridge interviews.
I don't know how it works, honestly. There are about 20 times as many state school students so I'd imagine that they could fill the quotas of state and private okay with the same grade boundaries?
I'm actually interested to know, because there wasn't any difference when I applied. Okay so we are talking 30 years ago, but the state/private split hasn't moved all that much has it? Was 50:50 then in my subject, they said.0 -
*shrugs* my mother interviews candidates and suggests who they give offers for and is in the room when they discuss what grades targets they should be offered.
I heard this stuff for my entire childhood at the dinner table.0 -
It is very possible. Having been to the other place I can vouch for the fact that I only got in because I interviewed well that day.rick_chasey said:*shrugs* my mother interviews candidates and suggests who they give offers for and is in the room when they discuss what grades targets they should be offered.
I heard this stuff for my entire childhood at the dinner table.
I did have the same actual grades as everyone else, but none of the extra things that you get if you are being coached to apply by an experienced private school. So you wouldn't have picked me on paper I don't think.0 -
German registered Audi S5 convertible, I just assumed the driver was a lazy selfish tw@ with an overinflated sense of importance. I'd lay money on that being the case.Stevo_666 said:
I stay clear of cars like that. Especially ones that look like they're used to transport young kids - tend to be bad for the paintwork.veronese68 said:
Parked next to a car that was at quite an angle with one rear corner encroaching into the space I was using. I was considering leaving my car far enough forward that they wouldn't be able to get out of their space. Didn't as they would probably have just damaged my car and driven off. Thankfully their car was still there when I left so no problem. Had I blocked them in I guarantee they would have blamed me rather than their own shitparking.Stevo_666 said:
And people who don't park within the allocated spaces.JimD666 said:People who can't park a car straight. Whether they go in forwards or backwards. How can you walk away when it's blindly obvious?
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Germans, eh?veronese68 said:
German registered Audi S5 convertible, I just assumed the driver was a lazy selfish tw@ with an overinflated sense of importance. I'd lay money on that being the case.Stevo_666 said:
I stay clear of cars like that. Especially ones that look like they're used to transport young kids - tend to be bad for the paintwork.veronese68 said:
Parked next to a car that was at quite an angle with one rear corner encroaching into the space I was using. I was considering leaving my car far enough forward that they wouldn't be able to get out of their space. Didn't as they would probably have just damaged my car and driven off. Thankfully their car was still there when I left so no problem. Had I blocked them in I guarantee they would have blamed me rather than their own shitparking.Stevo_666 said:
And people who don't park within the allocated spaces.JimD666 said:People who can't park a car straight. Whether they go in forwards or backwards. How can you walk away when it's blindly obvious?
A few years back we came out the supermarket to find a really badly parked car next to ours, so close that there was no way that Mrs. 666 could get in the passenger side until I'd reversed out (other car was reversed in so they got out the other side no problem). I joked to Mrs. 666 that I bet that was a bit of 'lady parking'. Turned round to see the woman whose car it was immediately behind us with a face like thunder
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Travel is a whole lot more annoying now. E-visas, covid tests, health declarations etc.0
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Looking on the bright side, it's not as onerous as it was 12 months ago, on the covid front. Bit of a pity about Brexit and loss of free movement, obvs... I can't remember if I've mentioned that...TheBigBean said:Travel is a whole lot more annoying now. E-visas, covid tests, health declarations etc.
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My comment mostly relates to the rest of the world, but I would have been disappointed if you had missed the opportunity.briantrumpet said:.
Looking on the bright side, it's not as onerous as it was 12 months ago, on the covid front. Bit of a pity about Brexit and loss of free movement, obvs... I can't remember if I've mentioned that...TheBigBean said:Travel is a whole lot more annoying now. E-visas, covid tests, health declarations etc.
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"Let's go Andy, let's go". Fucking Muppets.0
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In Cambridge, public school pupils go to the 6th form comp to increase their chances of redbrick unis. Works for both worlds as everyone benefits from the competitive mindset0 -
We had a clutch of stickers given to us after local Eastbourne residents complained at all the Londoners heading down there on nice summer days clogging the streets up. It read:Stevo_666 said:
Germans, eh?veronese68 said:
German registered Audi S5 convertible, I just assumed the driver was a lazy selfish tw@ with an overinflated sense of importance. I'd lay money on that being the case.Stevo_666 said:
I stay clear of cars like that. Especially ones that look like they're used to transport young kids - tend to be bad for the paintwork.veronese68 said:
Parked next to a car that was at quite an angle with one rear corner encroaching into the space I was using. I was considering leaving my car far enough forward that they wouldn't be able to get out of their space. Didn't as they would probably have just damaged my car and driven off. Thankfully their car was still there when I left so no problem. Had I blocked them in I guarantee they would have blamed me rather than their own shitparking.Stevo_666 said:
And people who don't park within the allocated spaces.JimD666 said:People who can't park a car straight. Whether they go in forwards or backwards. How can you walk away when it's blindly obvious?
A few years back we came out the supermarket to find a really badly parked car next to ours, so close that there was no way that Mrs. 666 could get in the passenger side until I'd reversed out (other car was reversed in so they got out the other side no problem). I joked to Mrs. 666 that I bet that was a bit of 'lady parking'. Turned round to see the woman whose car it was immediately behind us with a face like thunder
Thanks for parking so close.
Next time, please leave a f*cking tin opener so I can get my car out.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Would the be due to the elderly residents of Eastbourne needing a least 5m gap front and rear to manoeuvre out of a parking space?pinno said:
We had a clutch of stickers given to us after local Eastbourne residents complained at all the Londoners heading down there on nice summer days clogging the streets up. It read:Stevo_666 said:
Germans, eh?veronese68 said:
German registered Audi S5 convertible, I just assumed the driver was a lazy selfish tw@ with an overinflated sense of importance. I'd lay money on that being the case.Stevo_666 said:
I stay clear of cars like that. Especially ones that look like they're used to transport young kids - tend to be bad for the paintwork.veronese68 said:
Parked next to a car that was at quite an angle with one rear corner encroaching into the space I was using. I was considering leaving my car far enough forward that they wouldn't be able to get out of their space. Didn't as they would probably have just damaged my car and driven off. Thankfully their car was still there when I left so no problem. Had I blocked them in I guarantee they would have blamed me rather than their own shitparking.Stevo_666 said:
And people who don't park within the allocated spaces.JimD666 said:People who can't park a car straight. Whether they go in forwards or backwards. How can you walk away when it's blindly obvious?
A few years back we came out the supermarket to find a really badly parked car next to ours, so close that there was no way that Mrs. 666 could get in the passenger side until I'd reversed out (other car was reversed in so they got out the other side no problem). I joked to Mrs. 666 that I bet that was a bit of 'lady parking'. Turned round to see the woman whose car it was immediately behind us with a face like thunder
Thanks for parking so close.
Next time, please leave a f*cking tin opener so I can get my car out."I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
For their wheelchairs, surely?0
