It's Scheiße, merde and mierda from me! 💩 💩 💩

Well, I know I’m biased, since I was good at languages and rubbish at physics, so if I’d taken that at (then) O level I’d have struggled to scrape a bare pass.

Again I’m probably biased, but I do think the sciences are generally harder than modern European languages. I’d make an exception for anyone having a go at Mandarin, though…

I can see why this looks odd. The boundary itself does not mean French is harder than English, but for a pupil choosing subjects, seeing nearly 90% required for a grade 9 does send a pretty clear message.

There is also a wider issue here. If a student look at those numbers he will thought that a language is a risky choice when they could take another subject with a lower grade 9 boundary. That looks counterproductive when schools are already trying to encourage more pupils to study languages.

Here you get extra credit for getting a foreign language qualification at VCE ( our version of A level ). It helps get you into uni, extra marks. One of my daughters got an almost perfect score because she had German as one of her subjects.

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Here you get extra credit for getting a foreign language qualification at VCE ( our version of A level ). It helps get you into uni, extra marks. One of my daughters got an almost perfect score because she had German as one of her subjects.

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That's interesting.