V.A.T, in school fees

Showing yourself up again, Ana.
Just call me a liar, why don't you?

You'll be saying I didn't get a scholarship to a private school next. You'll be checking up on the list of alumni of all private schools in Yorkshire, just to find out if there was anyone there with the Christian name Jennifer.
Good luck with that!

Only coming on to settle a dispute. DH did Oxford and Cambridge board O levels, mid 60s. He was graded by numbers. I did London Board and was graded by letters.

Thanks, J52. I knew somebody else would be graded by letter.

Oh dear. Ladies, please don't make this miserable.

I hated school and received horrible grades. I often wonder what I might have done if my wonderful parents had prioritised their daughters education in addition to their sons? I left school as early as possible, married at 16, became pregnant to happily raise our family. But what if?

Making education a wonderful experience to everyone is first. In public or private schools, I don't care where children are educated, just to be well educated. Because I was not, as is easy to discern.

Hardly - how on earth do we know your real name's Jennifer?

Anyway, all this came about because someone had said a lot of teachers can't spell, add or subtract and can't control pupils. Then it got onto T Blair and his 'University for 50%' mantra and durhamjen was keen to defend him as teachers who trained in the 70s didn't need a degree or maths...

My O levels were graded by letter as well- perhaps its just us northerners dj we were as usual ahead of the crowd!!! and it was in the 60s

I'm a northerner too.

How were your exams graded then ana?

Most of my O levels (1971) were graded by number but my English was graded by letters. For no reason anyone could fathom the pass grades were A, C and E. I've no idea why they missed out B and D!

I did say yesterday - our 0 levels were graded by number, not letter.

God what eons ago that was!!!! Mine were numbers - Oxford. I'm was a South Westerner, now a South Easterner.

Not sure what GS is doing - all I know is that they take a ridiculous number, far better to concentrate on a smaller number of subjects in more depth.

I have no clue as to mine ( too long ago) but DH who has an excellent memory says that his were 1-9 and he thinks the last 3 may have meant fails.
Nobody has been called a liar on here, and some posters are interested in the way exams were graded, and some are not.....however, as a good rule of thumb
It may be the best idea not to list O levels A levels and degrees that one has as it does look rather boasty, and anyone can say anything at all on a forum.

I entirely agree with roses.

Exam grades or letters are only important for getting you onto the next level. Once I had got my A levels no one ever asked what GCSEs I had, and once I got my degree no one was ever interested in my A level results.
BUT rosesarered, I am the first to say, not everything should be measured by academic achievement and all I wanted to do was to work in Woolworths!

Roses, Beammeup, that must be right.
Mea Culpa (but I didn't do Latin!).

As from next year, 2018, the numbers are 9 - 1. Nine will only be for geniuses.

Well,absolutely Lillie there are many worthwhile jobs where academic achievements are not necessary.The other thing is that having got them though, hardly any employers wanted to see them!

Fitzy .....

The only O-level result I'm sure of was my grade 9 Biology. I was mortified as, though in the bottom group at science, I got a question about human reproduction (which I reckoned I knew all about), and had to dissect and draw a primrose, which even I could manage. They used to say you'd get an 8 as long as you wrote your name on the top of the paper.

Well Maggie, 9 will be the top grade under the new system so you can talk about your Biology grade to your grandchildren with an air of confidence!

Not always Boastie Rosesarered, I failed maths, geography, sciences, and few more .

spectacular fails then( I like the 'and a few more' !)

Surprised they put you in for them Annie - fails don't look good on the school record!

They didn't put me in for German. The only mark I got in my mock was as a result of some questions in English about modern day Germany. I answered Willy Brandt to all 5 questions and got one right!