The big news story of the day is the scrapping of GCSEs for the much tougher O-Levels. Michael Gove has announced today that by 2014, GCSEs are history and O-Levels will be re-introduced into the curriculum.
Now, I've already done GSCEs, so I feel obliged to give my opinions about this story. I personally don't mind if the GCSE is removed, I disagree with the fact that they are removed for being too easy. I did GCSEs for two years and I can tell you, it's no picnic, they are difficult, not as difficult as A-Levels, but they are suppose to be harder.
Of course the middle-aged politicians are going to say they are easy, most of them have had a good education and they did O-Levels many moons ago. Also, has anyone considered that most kids are quite smart? The negative stereotyping of a few teenagers (last year's riots come to mind) has given adults the impression that all of them are stupid, anti-social 'chavs'. I'm not saying there aren't any of these, but not all of them are. I know that there are kids out there that care about their future, revise for exams and take it seriously, I'm one of them and I know even more of them.
So, the notion of GCSEs being easy is ridiculous, I've been through it and so many thousands of others. I just hope that the new O-Levels won't affect people's futures too much, I can say that an exam doesn't measure a person's intelligence, there are many ways to determine how clever people are but if exams are the way to go, don't make them too hard, the future of the nation does depend of it.
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