Half of public says Leaving Cert grade inflation should stop ‘immediately’ after another year of bumper results
https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/half-of-public-says-leaving-cert-grade-inflation-should-stop-immediately-after-another-year-of-bumper-results/a184192468.html
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Half of public says Leaving Cert grade inflation should stay after another year of bumper results
Half of the public are idiots who don’t understand why deflation of grades needs to be gradually done, so
What about the percentage that think the whole thing is an outdated form of testing and needs complete reform.
The vast majority of the public don’t have a clue what should happen with leaving cert grade inflation.
Half are saying stop grade inflation because it sounds like a good sound byte.
My own approach would be to keep the current system for one more year. Everyone who had their grade inflated had an actual grade and an inflated grade.
In 2026 it should be long enough that next to one who got good grades through teacher predicted grades will want to go through the cao.
Everyone had grades in the 2022-2025 years should then have their grades reverted to their actual grade going forward and 2026 should be non inflated.
Why the fuck does it matter what the public thinks? People who understand the impact and how it works should be asked.
And what was public opinion when they wanted to scale 2020 results to line up with prior years?
someone explain how do they inflate the grades, compared to the actual grade?
But if all results are inflated doesn’t that then average out with how the CAO issue college offers?
Most important thing is that everybody is graded the same.
Does it really matter since it’s marked on a curve.
“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” – HL Mencken
It works on a bell curve it’s completely irrelevant if they’re inflated
They promised to bring the grades down gradually. Going off the point stats published by the CAO, it appears that they did do this (albeit marginally) from 2022 to 2023, but for some reason the same reduction wasn’t seen this year. If they ever want to bring the grades back to normal they need to actually commit to it.