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I disagree with this.
Basically, at the moment you can take some GCSEs in modules. You study a part of it, take the exams for it, move onto the next part when you understand it well enough to pass the test. They're being scrapped and the emphasis returned on studying for two years and then taking exams at the end.
Which to me sounds the wrong way around. If you haven't grasped part 1 of a subject, then the best way to gain understanding is to keep plugging away at it until you do understand it, and then move on to the next part, which will almost certainly be more advanced _and_ built on the first part.
I've seen people do badly at maths because they were just taking 10% longer to grasp something, but before they could get it entirely straight in their heads they were whisked onto the next part, meaning that they never managed to properly understand any of it. The idea that this is a superior method of learning seems entirely counterintuitive to me.
Basically, at the moment you can take some GCSEs in modules. You study a part of it, take the exams for it, move onto the next part when you understand it well enough to pass the test. They're being scrapped and the emphasis returned on studying for two years and then taking exams at the end.
Which to me sounds the wrong way around. If you haven't grasped part 1 of a subject, then the best way to gain understanding is to keep plugging away at it until you do understand it, and then move on to the next part, which will almost certainly be more advanced _and_ built on the first part.
I've seen people do badly at maths because they were just taking 10% longer to grasp something, but before they could get it entirely straight in their heads they were whisked onto the next part, meaning that they never managed to properly understand any of it. The idea that this is a superior method of learning seems entirely counterintuitive to me.
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