Disclaimer: Throughout this piece I'm afraid I get quite vexed with a certain organisation and speak of it rather unkindly. Because I am a dreadful coward and don't have the money to get sued, I'm just want to point out that it was all in jest. Thank you.
Well, well, well. Good evening, everyone. How are you? I must say that I'm feeling much better than I once did with concerns to this blog. Updating once a week as opposed to once a day makes this entire enterprise significantly less stressful, although as you can see I'm still waiting until last thing on a Sunday evening before I actually get round to writing this darned thing.
Right then, let's see. What have I been up to? Well, as usual, very little. I've been getting on with the seeming endless amount of school work which always rests on my shoulders. I've gained a new found confidence in the piece I'm doing in drama since every time HSQ (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HolyShitQuotient) is comfortably in the "Kickass" section, if I do say so myself. I'm resitting both the English Exam I messed up and the Biology Exam.
I think that this image sums up the feel of my drama piece the best."But wait!" I hear you cry, "Wasn't that very English Literature result the offending grade that was one of among dozens if not hundreds of similar results that sullied the results pages of students throughout the school who had the ill fortune of taking that unfortunate examination?"
Well, my verbose reader, yes, that is the very same one that I speak of. Unfortunately the good people at the AQA Examination board, despite a record number of under-marked students all across the country in their exams (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11468265), have decided, in their no doubt infinite wisdom, that of the ten papers we sent as a sample for them to remark (ten that would, if remarked up, represent a rise in all our results), only one of them was deserving of such honour.
The paper in question was one of the very few (three, as I recall) in our entire year that received an A.
A low A.
One that is now a high A.
(Incidentally, I genuinely bare no grudge to the individual in question, my grudge lies entirely with AQA).
The only picture I could find of the head of AQA.Now, it is completely beyond my station to speak ill of a major examining board, so I won't.
I could go on about how repeatedly publicly announcing that errors in the marking such as this are extremely rare does not go any way to making anyone feel any better about the fact that you made a mistake and we are paying the consequences of that mistake.
I might talk about how if one suddenly finds that one area of exams seem to be under-marked due to error and another area of exams seem to contain students scoring a good three grades beneath their coursework marks, that it is surely a matter of common sense to assume that similar negligent marking errors are present in those exams instead of assuring students that the the former marks were errors that will be rectified, yet somehow the ones latter aren't and won't.
Why, I might even imply that if he above sentiments were correct the company in question may be adamantly standing by the ridiculously low marks that they gave out not because they genuinely don't believe that an error that occurred in the marking of one of their exams may have continued into another, but because they didn't want the media exposer of more incorrect markings, effectively putting their own public image before the the future University prospects of literally hundreds of students around the country.
I could talk about that, but I won't.
Hmm, I was planning on using this paragraph to assure readers that I wasn't just being a petulant child, bawling and crying about how his grades weren't quite as good as he expected when it's clear that if this issue didn't effect him, he wouldn't give a toss about it. Well, although I do genuinely believe that if this had happened in another subject, it still would annoy me, it is true that I am being petulant and I think that I should be.
Had this happened to anyone, I would have been annoyed, and probably blogged about it. But, yes, since it happened to me, it has added another layer of emotion to it. They had to make it personal by not only making it happen to me, but in English, the subject I have the deepest passion for (No offence Drama, Biology you should have probably seen this coming).
To form a metaphor, it would like seeing a man strike someone in an alley. If I didn't know the person, I like to think I'd rush in and intervene. But if it was someone I knew, close friend, than I would rush in and attempt to physically help.
A visual representation. That's me on the far right, AQA in the middle and on the left is... er... English? I don't know, I've sort of lost track of this metaphor and where it is going.So there you have it, why I currently hate AQA. But don't worry, I'm sure that they'll soon send all our grades back soon, properly remarked and filled with as much heartfelt regret as this sentence is in sarcasm.
Good night.
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