MIKE Bentley really should do his homework before dabbling in polemic (Saturday Sound Off, July 10).
Factual errors always undercut writers who adopt extreme positions without doing the necessary research and Mr Bentley is no exception.
Since the restructuring of A-level provision in 2000, each pupil now sits an average of four AS levels at the end of year 12 (the lower sixth form in many schools) and an average of three A2 levels (the old A-level equivalent) at the end of year 13 (or the upper sixth).
In neither examination is the grade A* available, the highest grade in each case being A.
Of course, looked at another way, the writer may be offering his article, error strewn and ill-considered as it is, as proof of his own argument. Copied your GCSE coursework off the Internet did you, Mr Bentley?
Ian Giles,
Thorpe Lane, Cawood.
Updated: 11:18 Thursday, July 15, 2004
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