Quote Originally Posted by BDC
Schools here get money as long as people pass. So their aim is to make as many pass as possible, at the expense of people who actually have a real chance of doing well if some effort is just put into it.

My biology AS class started at 20 people. At the end of the year 2 dropped it voluntarily despite passing, 10 failed completely and 2 were kicked out because they only got an E. So 50% of the class got absolutley nothing from it, and dragged everyone else down simply because a C at GCSE is considered good enough to try and do an A level in a subject...
I don't take A levels (I'm 14) but somehow I'm taking GCSEs this year. Many of them have pass rates (C) approaching 30% on a syllabus that isn't all that hard anyways...