I have been meaning to add this post for a while now but I'm only just finding the spare moment to write it. One unforeseen pleasure that writing this blog has brought are the discussions that it is sparking with lots of people on all sorts of things. After I posted a blog in early January about my class preparing for a GCSE exam I had a very thought provoking email from my older brother.
Through my own education and my job experience I can only comment on the students I have come across in a mixed comprehensive setting. General gist of my thoughts was that boys and girls approach exams differently, with the girls taking it more seriously then the boys. My older brother has experience of an all boys grammar school and raised the question whether boys in that setting approach exams in the same way boys in a mixed school do. He then went one step further and questioned how students in a private school approach an exam. Questions to which I had no answers.
As exam season rapidly approaches I am going to be curious to see whether this cohort of students are able to change my opinion.
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