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    Quote Originally Posted by MSTRS View Post
    If an exam is/was an attempt to establish competence...
    If that's not the design function then it's not an examination.

    Quote Originally Posted by MSTRS View Post
    There was never any interest in an individual's competency or whether the curriculum was taught well - only in ensuring half the group failed and half succeeded.
    You're suggesting students incapable of achieving last years targets be encouraged to try harder ones next year?
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    I'm saying that the old system of SC and UE etc was a crock of shit. Scarcely better (or worse) than NCEA.
    Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?

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    Quote Originally Posted by avgas View Post
    Its impossible to 'stand on the shoulders of giants' these days, so one must simply pile up enough fools underneath them to get to the same heights.
    Ahh. The "Greg O'Connor approach".

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    Quote Originally Posted by MSTRS View Post
    I'm saying that the old system of SC and UE etc was a crock of shit. Scarcely better (or worse) than NCEA.
    S'pose it depends on what you thought it was for. As a measure of competence nobody has ever discovered a better way than asking for a demonstration.

    In that regard NCEA is worse than useless as it engenders delusions of competence in those who have no marketable skills whatsoever.
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    How anyone can defend a system that tested (kid's) learning, and then allocated a result based on half must pass/fail, is beyond me.
































































    Unless Ocean1 was one of those test setters...
    Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?

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    Not defending it, but without it we'd have to pack our own groceries and pump our own petrol ..... we do that now anyway.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MSTRS View Post
    How anyone can defend a system that tested (kid's) learning, and then allocated a result based on half must pass/fail, is beyond me.
    Think you'll find there was never a policy quite that simplistic...

    Quote Originally Posted by MSTRS View Post
    Unless Ocean1 was one of those test setters...
    ...and no, I'm not going to review your 1959 49% in science.

    Quote Originally Posted by Bald Eagle View Post
    Not defending it, but without it we'd have to pack our own groceries and pump our own petrol ..... we do that now anyway.
    Fair suck of the sav mate, nowadys there's no tests to filter out prospective labourers, so they go straight onto teh doll.
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