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My name for them is “Smoke and Mirrors Marks.”
I believe that UMS marks are what is left after the raw
percentage of an exam result has been tinkered with and adjusted for this that
and the other.
But what This, That and The Other are, I have never
discovered.
If there had been an Exam Board in the Harry Potter
books, UMamus is the spell they would have cast over anybody who challenged
their decision.
I feel bad that I have never,
a)
as a parent, fully come to grips
with understanding them
b)
as a citizen, never led a protest
march against them.
I would happily now move on without ever having grasped
UMS marks, except that I plan to train as a teacher so must address my personal
black hole of ignorance.
If anybody can explain them to me, please leave a comment
below. (Except you, Michael Gove – I’m
not sure I want to hear what you have to say!)
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Sorry Clare - they are a mystery to me too! Something taught by a professor of the dark arts I suspect!
ReplyDeleteIf you do find out then perhaps a couple of blog entries dedicated to enlightening us fellow 'waiting for August 15th' parents would be very useful.
I think Gove touches his UMS mark to call the rest of the DfE ministerial team to him. That or they're the sign his followers will send up when he makes his leadership bid. I'm not really sure.
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