[Liverpool] Meeting on 15/16th Dec

[Mark Atherton]

David Watson wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 17:33 +0000, Daniel Hulme wrote:
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>>>Hmm your meant to revise for them????!!!! i think i see the fatal flaw
>>>in my plans when i was in year 11
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>>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.
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>>Teachers: they screw with your mind and then mark you down for writing
>>nonsense.
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>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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Is that why teachers spen all the time before the mock saying "dont 
worry about them and get all stressed" and all the time before the real 
ones saying "fail these and your life is over, this is your chance to 
get love money and a place in heaven. Fail and its fire and pitchforks 
all the way"