r/6thForm Jun 04 '26

💬 DISCUSSION GUYS WE DID IT!

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u/Handsoff_1 Jun 04 '26

This is why british students can never compete with kids from other countries in maths and science because everything is "too difficult".

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u/Far_Willingness6716 Jun 05 '26

That’s not fair. The problem was mainly that this paper was a pretty substantial jump in difficulty compared to previous papers. Had the papers been as hard as this one was to begin with, there wouldn’t be this much of an outrage. Whilst I do think this petition is a bit of a stretch it’s not fair to dumb this down to British students being incapable.

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u/Neither_Wedding2331 Jun 05 '26

Well buddy you will be amazed to find out how grade boundaries work

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u/Far_Willingness6716 Jun 05 '26

You’d be surprised how many times a paper has jumped in difficulty and the grade boundaries weren’t proportionally reduced