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>> Everything I know about algebra is what little I've been able to
>> figure out for myself and scrape out of library books.
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> Do a maths evening class? You should sail through the GCSE, the A-level
> might take a little bit of work to fill in the gaps of your knowledge.
> For even further the Open University probably offer something.
My mum suggested I do a maths A-level. Personally, I'm not sure where
I'd find the money or the time. Nice idea though...
>> What happens is that every single year, the pass rate either goes up,
>> or it goes down.
>
> There is a strong upward trend though in the results:
Is this a fact, or just hype? It's hard to tell just by listening to the
news. (If you believed them, bird flu is a deadly world-wide pandemic
which is killing everything in sight...)
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http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mJmwQtPmusk/Rt8ZqfEnvyI/AAAAAAAAA2U/TIGBotspDds/s400/gcse-scores--ns-2007.jpg
This isn't grades, it's point scores. You can get a higher GSCE point
score by taking more subjects.
>> I haven't had the opportunity to try that, so I really couldn't say.
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> Maybe one of your parents has an old text book from school? I also got
> my dad's A level physics text book, and it went in to so much more
> detail about *everything* that we did in A level physics, if I wanted to
> read further about anything in school I used his books.
I have my mum's O-level maths books. (Plural.) And her logarithm tables.
(They're very brown and crumbly.) The books talk about a lot of stuff I
either already know or don't understand. I guess because I don't know
the stuff that's supposed to come *before* an O-level. The books talk a
lot about trigonometry and triangle rules; damn, at my school, maths
classes didn't even mention triangles!
> When something stupid like 40% gets an A grade
It's that high??
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