Hammer
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I still live with my parents in the same hometown and go out and get pissed every weekend 
That is my prerogative 
Although you are thick and you cheat on your missus and sniff coke I think we could be friends Oliver.
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N3CRO
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Originally posted by Gaz
BT are cunts though.
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Conway563
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Originally posted by Hammer
I still live with my parents in the same hometown and go out and get pissed every weekend
I don't see what the fascination of moving out of the town you grew up in is
As far as I can tell most people think where they live is pretty shit so why would I move from somewhere I'm quite comfortable with everything I need
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Ojc
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Originally posted by Hammer
Although you are thick and you cheat on your missus and sniff coke I think we could be friends Oliver.
I do also believe this.
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John
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Doesn't sounds that far away from Hammer tbh 
I'm planning on staying around Glasgow forever, I like it, all my family are here, no reason to go elsewhere.
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Ian
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I do generally find that my students with better GCSE results are usually more intelligent. More capable of holding a technical conversation, more capable of learning new and more specific things, which they will actually end up using.
Those who mess about usually have the grades as well because they are intelligent enough to have passed GCSEs without much tuition. I have a few of these as well and their reports don't read like a catalogue of missed opportunities.
Those who don't have the grades would usually struggle to pass re-sits. We don't put older people in for higher paper GCSE unless they already have D or above, because they wouldn't get it, for example.
For me, actually coming from a position of using the grades, they are a very good indicator of a few things. Actual knowledge being one and whether I would choose to employ them being another.
[Edited on 22-12-2010 by Ian]
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Ojc
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So how do you explain me then? Why didn't I do well?
I cannot stress it enough to you, I did not listen to a word being said to me in the last 4 years of secondary school.
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VrsTurbo
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i didnt listen at all in my GCSE' got mostly D-E and failed ICT and that is now my profession.
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Jake
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Originally posted by Ian
More capable of holding a technical conversation
those that cant - there's nothing worst, even just a normal conversation its like they dont hear what you say and interrupting you with "yeh"'s
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Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
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Or they add 'and that'.
I was in the room and that.
That's another favourite.
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Jamie Walby
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I like agree
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AK
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Originally posted by Ojc
So how do you explain me then? Why didn't I do well?
I cannot stress it enough to you, I did not listen to a word being said to me in the last 4 years of secondary school.
so if you were employing folk would you consider someone with shite grades?
Unless they had some stand-out experience or flair (hard through a CV) I would just refuse before interview. If someone cannot get decent grades at school whats to suggest that they will jue:st carry on this behavior at work 
You NEED good grades to get decent jobs these days.
The people with crap grades that do well tend to be self employed/reun their own company.
I didnt listen much at school, I had fun, I missed classes but I still got 8 of your GCSE equivs all at top level (1 or 2) and then 5 highers (A levels?) in 1 year. Left school when I was 16, and at Uni age 17
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John
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Are GCSE's equivalent of standard grades 
You are thick as shit Ollie, a half competent 5 year old could pass them.
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Ojc
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Depends on how they interviewed, usually there would be a test to determine how suitable the candiate is for the role as well, not how well they answered questions on Shakespeare or why Prohibition failed.
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Ojc
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Originally posted by John
Are GCSE's equivalent of standard grades
You are thick as shit Ollie, a half competent 5 year old could pass them.
Not thick, I'm certainly far more intelligent now than I was when I left school.
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AK
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Originally posted by Ojc
Depends on how they interviewed, usually there would be a test to determine how suitable the candiate is for the role as well, not how well they answered questions on Shakespeare or why Prohibition failed.
yes.... but with crap grades I dont even think you'd get to Interview!
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AK
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Originally posted by John
Are GCSE's equivalent of standard grades
You are thick as shit Ollie, a half competent 5 year old could pass them.
I think they are slightly harder. But I think English stay in school longer than Scottish (more years)
In Scotland we have 13 years from primary to secondary i think
I always remember when English folk came to live in Scotland they would be moved back a year (so they were 1yr older than their classmates)
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Ojc
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Make them up? Who checks? Only thing I wouldn't feel comfy lying about would be Maths, I am truly horrific at Maths. I'm good at times tables but that's as far as it goes.
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Ian
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quote:
Originally posted by Ojc
Depends on how they interviewed
Assuming you got that far.
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Originally posted by Ojc
Make them up? Who checks?
I've seen it done and I've seen people sacked when they were incorrect.
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adiohead
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Originally posted by Ojc
Make them up? Who checks? Only thing I wouldn't feel comfy lying about would be Maths, I am truly horrific at Maths. I'm good at times tables but that's as far as it goes.
The BT application said they'd need proof of grades. I have all my GCSE certificates but I've lost my Diploma
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Jake
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Originally posted by Ian
Or they add 'and that'.
I was in the room and that.
That's another favourite.
one of my brothers says that after every other word. gives me stomach ulcers
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Ojc
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Registered: 14th Nov 00
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My National Record of Achievement got set fire to over the golf course. Along with some Year 12 RE course work that we thought was funny to burn.
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3CorsaMeal
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Originally posted by Jamie Walby
I like agree
yeh 
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taylorboosh
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Yea bt check at interview
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harrisp
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at OJC bragging about not doing well at school.
My attendance was less than 60% for the last two years of school I lost count of how many times I was excluded and how many times I went in drunk etc, Im not proud of it though.
I still got 7 Cs, 1 B and an A though.
[Edited on 22-12-2010 by harrisp]
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