Comments by "Taffy Terrier" (@taffyterrier) on "A-levels student finds out she is going to Oxford" video.

@jodypritchard5425 Did Michael Gove not put a stop to that New Labour trend?
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Poor Britain
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@NTVT1999 The percentage scores are irrelevant. If the exams are sufficiently dumbed down every candidate will score 100% and A*s awarded across the board.
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An Oxford education will be dumbed down to suit.
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@randominternetfella96 Both are equally to blame.
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Every kid gets the grades in dumbed down Britain.
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An A grade in 1995 is the equivalent of a C grade in 1980.
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@jodypritchard5425 The majority of teachers and headmasters are products of the dumbed down education system which Thatcher kickstarted in the late 1980s.
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@jodypritchard5425 As I understand it, Michael Gove attempted to reintroduce a little bit of rigour into GCSEs and “A-levels” by ending modularisation and multiple resits although the questions and exam format remained a lot easier than they were in the late 70s/early 80s. After his intervention the grade boundary for a grade A in A-level maths came down to 45% because the exam was more testing but prior to his reforms when old O-level questions were used in “A-levels” the grade boundary was presumably much higher. The percentage scores are therefore irrelevant.
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@douglastaggart9360 Every kid gets the grades to go to university in dumbed down Britain.
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@dragonofhatefulretribution9041 How many would have passed 30 years ago ?
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@dragonofhatefulretribution9041 but ISTR 20 years ago that A-levels had never been easier as New Labour had split the exam into easily digestible, bite sized modules which could be resat multiple times to improve grades without penalty as Blair pulled out all the stops in his misguided attempt to enable 50% of all young people to go to “university”. Therefore I am dubious that 90% of current 18 year olds would have failed them.
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@TheMindOf_Reason The boundaries are low.
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@TheMindOf_Reason In 198O you would have probably got a D or an E.
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@TheMindOf_Reason Modern “A-levels” have been simplified and dumbed down beyond recognition.
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@TheMindOf_Reason In the early 2000s under New Labour old O-level questions routinely appeared on contemporary “A-level” papers. Today’s students would struggle to pass any A-level from the early 80s or before, let alone get grade As.
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@aguywithaview grades are up nationally
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@Blocks33 Some A grades would have been E grades in previous years.
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@poo-bear4434 No one is properly educated now in dumbed down Britain.
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