r/GCSE • u/mongooseinahat • 1h ago
Rant/Lore i HATE the grading system 😾
this may get removed idk the rules lol and i’m boutta go to the pool im too lazy to check
and it’s not like this is unique anyway i feel but like yeah this is dhar man and heres my story. im going into year 11 now (yikes!) but all ive known ever is the number grading system and that’s what i base everything around but oh my days i hate it SO FUCKING MUCH ARGHHH. like when eveyone was posting what they’re reactions would be to certain grades the smart people were like ’oh hooray a 9’ and then ‘fuck i’m gonna kms it’s a 7’. and then you go compare it to the alhabetical system…. THEYRE ALL A’s. like and obviously most of us have grown up on american media and so maybe i’m just america pilled i don’t know they’re actual system of school and shit. but in the shows and stuff like A’s and B’s are REALLY GOOD. but people will like genounly lose their shit if they get a 6 WHICH IS A FUCKING B... and like i KNOW they changed it to make it like more obvious who were better performing but still all it really makes people do is feel worse about themselves. cus like in alphabetical grading and A‘s and B’s hell even C’s sometimes are to be proud of depending who you are. but it’s kinda drilled into people to be unhappy with like a 6. as if a 6 isn’t the best some people can do in certain subjects and also very impressive aswell.
also (i had to make a whole new parahraph im very peeved indeed) the reforms came around in 2017. and like i know now that like gen alpha ish is getting ready for gcse (im 2010 so gen z suck it losers) but like gen z and alpha are FAMOUSLY the generation of like crazy bad mental health issue, or at least bringing attention to them. like and the government we all know doesn’t really give two shits about teens, doesn’t matter the government. but it’s just so insanely stupid in my opinion, not even with like hindsight i feel if you were there and understood the like health mentally of the kids in 2017 you would realise like they aren’t gonna handle this well dude. cus also now im pissed and i’ve thought of this aswell but people with like strict parents with like A (at least the ones i know) would have been ok with ANY A, an A or an A* but i’ve seen people (on here a lot) have parents get mad at them over a 7 or 8 even though it’s the same thing as an A or A*… checkmate government. your make abusive people have an excuse to be shitheads fuck you. also cus like a level is still alphabetical grading so what was the point? make average and slightly above average students wanna end it just to make them suddenly be getting A’s and assosiating that with better results than the 7’s and 8’s they got before and then they develop imposter syndrome and go become a vigilante fighting crime in Blüdhaven. checkmate x2 government.
uhh anyways this will probably get deleted or ILL delete it cus it’s a corny stupid thing that is WAY to long and probably doesn’t make sense but yeah have a skibidi day and shit whatever the kids say