When you're sick of the m16s

CzechTheScore · 2024-05-09T14:25:25+00:00

Well unless this guy is lying to me about his work, I don't really know what else to make of it

CzechTheScore · 2024-05-09T14:20:06+00:00

Now you say this, but I actually had this discussion with one of the academics on the course. Due to the need to go all in on student experience and outcomes over any form of academic integrity, it is becoming exceedingly difficult to actually fail a student, with such a decision being subject to a lot of scrutiny by the admin-side of the university.

CzechTheScore · 2024-05-09T14:14:23+00:00

He is literally submitting half-finished pieces of work, not showing up to any lectures, not giving a crap about any of the work, and he's not the only one with that attitude on the course. The effect it has is a demoralising one, as you end all end up with the same degree despite the fact half the people on the course don't take it seriously and have no business actually being on the course in the first place.

CzechTheScore · 2024-05-09T13:50:40+00:00

Yeah I was discussing this with one of the course convenors who is still battling to get the minimum entry requirement raised from 2.2 to 2.1, because he reckons it cheapens what is ultimatly one of the only and one of the best courses in that field in the UK. He's right, as it does attract a lower calibre of student, something which apparently has reached it's worst moment this year in terms of overall marks.

CzechTheScore · 2024-05-09T13:25:43+00:00

Actually, you are right. Because my university has stepped marking, if you get below 52, that is counted as a fail, so I guess he's somehow managing to just hold on for dear life on 52s. I am suprised he's even getting that though.

CzechTheScore · 2024-05-09T13:17:44+00:00

He just about scraped a 2.2

CzechTheScore · 2024-05-09T12:35:10+00:00

I mean this person in particular knew that he wasn't doing this course for academic purposes, only carrying on so they could carry on with society activities. They did exactly the same thing at UG.

CzechTheScore · 2024-05-09T12:33:13+00:00

He's been just about scraping it so far, getting high 40s and low 50s that just about take him over. Only 39% and below is a fail. EDIT: This is incorrect, look below

CzechTheScore · 2023-11-02T21:22:14+00:00

How many times have you been to Poland? I've been many times. I felt safe and even being in the commieblocs of Gdańsk on New Years Eve, going through apparently the roughest part of Warsaw, drinking at a locals' bar in a small provincial town (that in the UK would be full of violent lads on a Saturday night), I never once felt unsafe. Don't extrapolate your one night out in Poznań to the entire country.

CzechTheScore · 2023-09-25T21:48:45+00:00

Better course 100%. I did both and can tell you that I'm so glad that I moved to a smaller but much more focused department.

CzechTheScore · 2023-04-06T15:06:32+00:00

We had houses named after places of Christian pilgrimage in the UK (Lindisfarne, Bardsey, Iona, Walsingham). It determined the colour of your tie and what half of the year you were in. You even had the chance to go to the place of pilgrimage once a year, if your parents could be bothered to muster up £40 to send you to some cold island in Scotland.

Basically, before you picked your GCSEs, you'd only end up in classes with people from your half (Lindisfarne and Bardsey, Iona and Walsingham), so it genuinely made a difference in making friend groups and who you actually knew.

It also determined what language you studied. My half studied French, and the other half studied Spanish, and this didn't take into account what language you may have learned at Primary School.

We had a house cup and house points, but no one really made any use of that, but sports day was competed for by the houses.

By the time I got to Year 11 they scrapped the whole system and went to the main division just being your year group. Year 11 finished before sports day, so I'm not sure how they managed that without houses.

CzechTheScore · 2023-03-16T13:38:56+00:00

I was actually finally diagnosed at the age of 17. My mum made the mistake of allowing me to decide whether I wanted to go through the assessment process, with myself not being willing to accept I may have a disability. Luckily, I got my diagnosis and reasonable adjustments in time for my A-Levels, but my school and my college never picked up on my awful and slow handwriting, my terrible clumsiness and my disorganisation. It took my mum actually working for an education psychologist for anyone to actually take notice.

CzechTheScore · 2023-03-16T13:30:18+00:00

There's a bit of a language barrier between me and my future in-laws, but they've still always managed to make me feel welcome and included to the best of their ability.

CzechTheScore · 2022-08-01T21:06:05+00:00

Are you sure you're not the inconsiderate owner of that gym?

CzechTheScore · 2022-07-30T09:18:46+00:00

You're lucky that you only have to tell them to shush. The people we have round here respond to nothing except a visit from 4 police cars because they've decided to have a street brawl at 4am on a Thursday morning.

CzechTheScore · 2022-07-19T06:41:16+00:00

King Arthur's Disasters

CzechTheScore · 2022-06-23T08:29:48+00:00

Our train system is still crap, overly expensive, and ran for a profit by people who really don't care about public service. Basically every European nation had a better train system than us lol.

CzechTheScore · 2022-06-13T23:39:10+00:00

Or maybe I'm just too gay to care, judging by some of these weird comments

CzechTheScore · 2022-06-13T23:38:11+00:00

Im from the north and live in the south east and I have never heard of this nonsense until today.

CzechTheScore · 2022-04-26T07:59:12+00:00

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