[Liverpool] Meeting on 15/16th Dec

[David Watson]

On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 17:33 +0000, Daniel Hulme wrote:
> > Hmm your meant to revise for them????!!!! i think i see the fatal flaw
> > in my plans when i was in year 11
> Nah, the idea of mocks is you don't revise for them, then you fail
> horribly, get very scared and revise every hour of every day for the
> rest of the year, and go on to get good marks. Of course, this plan
> fails when you realise this, as you fail the mock horribly, realise it
> doesn't matter and that you always do worse in the mock than the real
> exam, fail to get stressed and revise lots, and go on to get the mark
> you would have got anyway. It works much the same way here.
> 
> Teachers: they screw with your mind and then mark you down for writing
> nonsense.

and the difference between your mock grade and actual exam grade is
called 'value added' the bigger the difference the better. (as long as
you actually improve)

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