DS didn't do as well as he or his teachers expected in his AS exams across the board (no one massive failure, just a general dropping of random points in every subject). School has decreed a maximum of 3 modules to be retaken for fear of overload at A2s. Fair enough, I trust their judgement.
But we had a parents evening last night. Every one of ds's teachers wants him to retake their subject. His maths teacher is arguing strongly that he can retake the entire AS maths exam alongside his A2s (plus another 3 retakes from his science subjects). This is crazy, no?
Mr Maths argues that retaking maths is not the same workload as other subjects because each A2 module is just a more difficult version of the AS module and so wouldn't require as much additional work. He also says that when A levels all happen in one year this will be what every student is doing, so ds is just getting in early.
DS is keen as it holds out the remote chance of upping his grade by 2 levels but I'm not sure if he is really aware how much of his busy social life this will involve.
Is Mr Maths right or would this be a crazy ask of ds?
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AS maths re-takes. WTF? Any maths profs around?
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Haffdonga · 01/10/2014 20:32
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