In line with the current theme running through about eeducation, I have been marking some of my year 9 tests. We are a secondary modern, with the best kids filtered out to the selective grammar school in the same town, so many of the kids have poor literacy and numeracy skills.
Answers are exactly as written........
(first 2 are lifted stright from a GCSE paper) Year 9 Q. Name 2 types of milk found in chilled area of the supermarket A. Red, Green, Blue
Year 9 Q.Name 2 types of milk found in the non-chilled area of a supermarket A. Sour A Gone off
Year 8 Q.State four hygiene rules that must be followed when working with food. A. If you cut yourself make sure you cover your womb with a blue plaster.
Year 7 Q. Describe the process for lighting a gas oven A. Get the teacher to do it for you
Year 7 (very poor literacy group, 1 girl cannot even write her name....) Give 3 rules for using weighing scales A. 1 Mearce it creckle 2 Flour bowl creckle 3 tecker creckle you rogn
I think she meant
1 Measure correctly 2 Put the flour into the bowl correctly 3 The teacher will correct it if you are wrongMany of our current year 7 are unable to divide and multiply by 2 or
10, which is extremely concerning.the reason - too many initiatives from the government for literacy and numeracy ( almost one a day last year accoding to the NUT!),and the insistance that we test our kids at age 7, 11, 14, 16 and 18 against national standards. Too much emphasis is being put on meeting the benchmarks in the league tables that basic skills are being forgotten as they are coached to pass specific tests!
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