Whilst Nick Clegg has been sunning himself at taxpayers expense in Rio, Michael Gove has been setting the educational cat amongst the pigeons. His proposed changes to the school examination system, has elicited the usual Pavlovian reaction from the opposition benches and the teaching profession. "It will divide children into winners and losers."
He has incurred their wrath by proposing to abolish the current GCSE's and return to the more rigorous GCE's, as a way of raising standards.
To help my readers understand the implications of these changes, I have managed to obtain a draft copy of the new GCE sample maths examination questions, so that we can compare it with a real GCSE maths question, from 2008.
2008 exam question.
Q1. Here is a sequence of multiples of 3.
3 6 9 12 15 __ __
Write down the next 2 numbers in the sequence.
This kind of question will be replaced by the following draft sample question, from the new GCE's
Q1. At 10 am this morning, the UK national debt stood at £1,053,531,170,830. Calculate how long it would take you to pay back your share if:
A. You work for 24 hours per week filling shelves at minimum wage in your local supermarket. Or
B. You have invested £3,300,000 in a K2 Jersey based fund.
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