By: zenpi

zenpi
Mon, 28 Jul 2025 08:19:55 +0000

Modular A level mathematics was a particular disgrace. When these exams came in in 2000, they quickly found that students were failing, despite the content be somewhat lighter than pre-2000. So, the literally dropped one of the six modules and rejigged the remaining five into six. Students could try the exams several times and it became a joke. Many of my (very clever) students played a game in their C1 (the easiest module) called C1 chicken. The chicken being the student who started writing first! The current course is better and challenging in the sense that we can't really prepare students for every question; they'll have to think on their feet. However, the coverage is not as extensive as before 2000 and nowhere near the standard of the 1980s when A levels were A levels