Different exams for boys and girls

[OrigamiYoda]

www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/jun/18/boys-girls-different-gcse-course

What do you think ?

I think that the situation could be improved if we had two marks for each subject, which was then combined for an overall grade. Thus three people may have a B grade for History but if you drilled down into the result you would find that:
one had C grade exam but A grade coursework;
one had A grade exam but C grade coursework;
one had B grade exam and B grade coursework.

This would help future employers etc get a better view of the person. So Person One excels at conscientious stuff and is therefore suited to administration or quality control. Person Two performs best under pressure and is therefore suited to sales. Person Three is more of an all-rounder and doesn't have the exagerated strengths/weaknesses of the other two.

This way there isn't a right/wrong, girl/boy divide. There is just 'horses for courses'.

Person Two performs best under pressure and is therefore suited to sales.

I think that's a bit of a dangerous generalisation! I preferred exams all the way but would have been sacked every time if I'd tried to get jobs in sales - you need someone much more ourgoing and thick-skinned than I am.

I'm for the 50/50 thing. But if you had to choose I do honestly think that exams would be the way to go. You do want people in jobs to be able to retain decent amounts of information and act on it decisively without having to check stuff every time.