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I'm not on about money as a reward, maybe even a McDonalds or something you wouldn't usually get just to make you feel better? That's never happened to any one of you lot?
Yeah. I got £50 when I "failed" to get into the Grammar school after the 11+ Thankfully i ended up there a year later through doing a set of (harder) exams.
I'm not sure if I have failed anything. Maybe a weekly French vocab test when I was 12 or something. But not important exams.
And no.
In the future, students may be inclined to take 'extra a-levels' and fail them on purpose, with the consilation of knowing they'll receive a 'free flight' for their troubles of sitting the exam.
Furthermore, it will act as an incentive for those with no prospects and/or common sense to not revise at all!
Having recieved AAA in my a-levels and studying at a top 5 university, I feel this is outrageous. Once more it is a case of the bone-idle being rewarded, and the academically privileged left to go without.
Thanks for encouraging and rewarding failure!
Possibly one of them!?
I didn't have a "clear career direction" when I was 16, I see that as a good reason to continue with education rather than going to work in a shoe shop!
I'm not on about money as a reward, maybe even a McDonalds or something you wouldn't usually get just to make you feel better? That's never happened to any one of you lot? ''
Only ever failed one verbal reasoning test for an Investment Bank [Goldman Sachs - Derivatives]. Even though the failure rate was 29 out of 30 candidates, failures not nice. A free flight wouldnt have helped either
And may I ask what qualifications you have acheived?
Ricardo-sorry to hear that. Some parents are cunts.
An A is a failure? You set yourself very high standards, which is not a bad thing, but...
I hope you do well, but please don't feel like a failure if you "only" get As or Bs or whatever!
I don't why that is relevant, but GCSEs, A Levels, a degree and a professional qualification.
Failure shouldnt be rewarded!!
By the theory suggested by classical conditioning & Pavlovian conditioning - if you reward a subject [in Pavlov's case study, this was a dog] for doing well, it gets a treat. Then in future, it associates good behaviour/doing well with receiving rewards [which we assume people want]. The opposite scenario applies also, reward a child for coming last in a race, subconsciously the child may want to come last again
I'm getting traces but anyhoo...
Actually, I remember when I was at college and people were comparing what they were getting from their parents. This one guy was saying that for each GSCE A*/A grade he got, he was given £200 [my college was in rural Surrey to set the scene...] and then people started to try and outdo one another, then one of my friends butted in and said, "Blimey, my [twin] sister and I only got a pack of M&Ms each!"
So basically you're equating a free plane ticket to an entrance at a university?
You're bonkers.
At no given point have I stated/assumed a free plan ticket = entrance at univeristy.
If you have read [assuming one can] correctly what I said, it was exactly the opposite. Where would you go with your four free flights?
This is a publicity stunt, nothing more and nothing less.
Btw this has been excellent publicity for RyanAir and a genius idea, they'll be all over the tabloids tomorrow, have been speaking to RyanAir's research analysts today who think it's good for momentum.
No, you are saying that.
You said that by rewarding failure then a child would deliberately fail, why would a child deliberately fail for a free plane ticket if there's an entrance at a university at stake on the other side of the scale?
By the way, anyone who begins their 'bebo profile' with the following:
'Everyone knows my name, it"s mad dog'
Has 'Hitler' as a hero
Is scared of 'Jews, Blacks and Gay People'
and says 'Buckfast is my life long partner, dunno where I"d be without a bottle of Buck in my hand on a Friday/Saturday night'
Probably shouldnt be involved in this conversation
Exactly. It's a numpty argument.
And anyone who can't read the Bold writing saying most of the page is a piss take and the fact I wrote "Joke" over those things shouldn't be involved in this conversation either.
Gets beat in an argument and resorts to an ad hominen attack. How gracious.
At least we can rule out Critical Thinking
No free holiday for you, lol