Anyone on here getting or got theirs today??

Adam

well done boys

Not yet! I'm only 13.

i know your only 13, i wish i had got into this game when i was your age, i'm 10 years slower than you

Let's not go down this road eh

John F
( Senior member of the ancient faction )


Adam - did you buy those last wheels - the split rim revolutions ?

No, I didn't, I did not want to pay for P&P and everything for them to come down from aberdeenshire (alot nearer you than me) just to find out they didn't fit. 5.5" backspace is huge.

Adam

P.S. I have an eye for a bargain, if it is cheap I'll buy it, even if I probably won't use it. I had a bit of a wheel build up in the garage (12 ) untill I got rid of the steels.

[Edited on 19/8/04 by phelpsa]

34 years ago . French and German, can't remember what grades but then they were real exams, 4 days at a desk without food or water, a real test. I survived by eating my shoes and drinking the ink from my spare pen.

From what I have heard on the news today, most taking tham @ the moment can't afford a spare pen.

Eee you were lucky!!

In ma day we didn't have the price of a pen.

We did 7 days of exams without food or water, we wrote our answers with our own blood from our worn fingers living int hole int middle o roord.

Don't know there born!!!

you had roads!!!!!!


in my day........

atb

steve

you had daylight!...................

In the year i did mine it was reported that it was the only year where the trend of them becoming easier was bucked!



Well it makes me feel better about it

I got 2 spirit levels when I left school

Dont it just hack you off tho when all the papers say that the exams are getting easier.The sad bastards who churn out this daily crap want putting up against a wall and shooting cant they give anyone any credit.
My kids worked harder than I ever did at school its just common sense a lot of em are lacking.
Cheers,
Bob

Hadn't they thought that people nowadays might be cleverer (no offence to Peteff).

Adam

[homermode]Why you liddle Phelps you!!![/homermode]. I learnt a lot at night classes, like you can't see in the dark. Do you get spirit levels for studying seances Bob? Anyway, Mom said I was special cos I went on the short bus, don't lick the windows you!!! And what are you doing still up, it's past your bedtime Adam. My Grandkids are nearly your age so less of it .

[Edited on 19/8/04 by Peteff]

i don't want to offend anyone but i think that standards are very different now i know that a lot of 50's and 60's maths o level stuff has pushed up to a levels.

how many gcse people are able to use logs or even know what they are.
i remember the extent of my gcse algebra was a question which said "make x the subject of the formula" thats not algebra!


i have seen exam papers from back in the day and they are harder. they have questions on that were as hard or harder than my a level maths.

I really do not want to offend anyone or imply that students don't work hard, they do they work bloody hard. (i'm 23 not that it really matters)

IMHO - I think the whole teaching structure has changed beyond comparison.

Teaching has changed so much since I left, when I went back some years later, I had to re-learn how to learn!

It's not about formulae and memory anymore... for god's sake you couldn't take a calculator into the exam room in my day!

The students nowadays need a new subject - called 'life'. Most seem to think that having qualifications is the same... sadly it isn't.

calculators are so under rated, i am good at maths but being able to use calculator quick and with accuracy is a real skill

i dont think they are easier, or that kids dont have any common sence, its just that kids are only taught stuff for exams, ie i asked "how many has this got" answer "for gcse's it has 9, but of a levels it has 18" and i ask about 18, and they say i dont need 2 no it, cus its not in the exams so kids dont arnt told stuff, for after the gcse's

Every year i get p***ed off when they say it is not fair to the people taking exams to say they are getting better grades than people used to because they are getting easier. Well in my view, it is unfair on all of us who took them in the past to say that they are not easier - after all, my 2 grade E's were enough for me to go on and get a degree so i can't be too thick. Very few people at my school (which was a Grammar school so had a higher than average level of intelligence as measured in academic terms) got or were expected to get A grades, yet now 1/4 of those taking A levels do - that must say something about the level the exams are set at.

Having said all that, well done to all those who passed - I'm bloody glad I don't have to do them myself anymore - teaching people for higher level professional qualifications is baad enough!!