{"id":32,"date":"2007-08-29T14:01:36","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T13:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davstott.me.uk\/index.php\/2007\/08\/29\/i-can-do-science-me\/"},"modified":"2007-08-29T14:01:36","modified_gmt":"2007-08-29T13:01:36","slug":"i-can-do-science-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davstott.me.uk\/index.php\/2007\/08\/29\/i-can-do-science-me\/","title":{"rendered":"I can do science, me."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/uk\/education\/article2344054.ece\">The Times online mentions today<\/a> that GCSE Science exams need to be easier, presumably to uniformly inflate grade distributions and therefore proving that students know more Science.<\/p>\n<p>Eh?<\/p>\n<p>I realise that Combined Science isn&#8217;t exactly Further Maths, but it is something of a starting point for really quite a lot of technical careers.<\/p>\n<p>To illustrate this, I&#8217;ve yoinked a question from the example exam paper The Times includes. It&#8217;s multiple choice, you have something like 40 seconds to answer. Ready? Steady.. Go!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/science.jpg\" title=\"Amusingly hard Science Exam Question\" alt=\"Amusingly hard Science Exam Question\" height=\"288\" width=\"738\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Times online mentions today that GCSE Science exams need to be easier, presumably to uniformly inflate grade distributions and therefore proving that students know more Science. Eh? I realise that Combined Science isn&#8217;t exactly Further Maths, but it is something of a starting point for really quite a lot of technical careers. To illustrate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davstott.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davstott.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davstott.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davstott.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davstott.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davstott.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davstott.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davstott.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davstott.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}