27th August is looming aka GCSE results day

Only a couple of days left now! For over 500000 students in the UK 27th August 2009 will be a very important day. It is the day that 8/9 years of compulsory education is summed up into some letters.

We can also expect the media to heavily criticise the hard work of the students as we get better grades. They just think that exams are getting easier and not that the teachers are teaching better or the students are working harder. nope not at all.

For example in the Daily Express today, there was an article that criticised the questions of some exams. The article quoted a question in a Chemistry exam paper:

Many people use recreational drugs.

Give one example of:
a) a legal recreation drug
b) an illegal recreational drug

Some recreational drugs are addictive
a) Give one example of a recreational drug that is very
addictive
b) Explain how the action of a drug makes a person become addicted to it.

Not all GCSE exams are like that. The article doesn't even state what of paper it was. It was probably the opening question in a foundation chemistry paper. The easiest possible question.

So, next time you read such an article don't believe all of it.