You can see them yourself.You can tell the difference between all the letters of the alphabet right? Well if you read something carefully, then you will be able to spot mistakes.
Dyslexia
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You can see them yourself.You can tell the difference between all the letters of the alphabet right? Well if you read something carefully, then you will be able to spot mistakes.
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Woah woah woah, let's not be silly now - English at GCSE is based on how much pompous rubbish you can write, not intelligence!
O definitly, but I think if you can get an A* in it in a class where ytour taught just to pass the exam litraly. Thats quite impressive. It's an easy subject if your in the top set being told what to write.
aarrrgggghhhh!!!!
what the hell are kids getting taught these days?!?!?!
English is not about English and Maths is not about Maths?!?!?!
Do they just give out A*s and free Happy Meals to anyone who bothers to turn up and doesn't knife a teacher?????
what the hell are kids getting taught these days?!?!?!
English is not about English and Maths is not about Maths?!?!?!
Do they just give out A*s and free Happy Meals to anyone who bothers to turn up and doesn't knife a teacher?????
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If you've read any of what ive said you'd allready know i can only spell as words sound. You'd also know we get letters constnatly the wrong way round. See letters as other letters they arnt and thus no we dont tell the edifference between all letters.
when i was at uni, 2003-2006 i receved the following kit
Laptop : Sony K315 £1300 i think,
Printer : Cannon Pixma 4000 140ish i think
Scanner: some hp thing about 100 i think
software: office, dragon speaking thing and others was about 600 i think,
but all was needed for me to do well on my course, if i hadnt done the course i would be on a low paid **** job paying little into the system, but i didnt i got the help i needed, i know earn a good wage, pay a lot of tax. So i cant see how anyone could say it was wasted money, or that i shouldnt have receved it.
Laptop : Sony K315 £1300 i think,
Printer : Cannon Pixma 4000 140ish i think
Scanner: some hp thing about 100 i think
software: office, dragon speaking thing and others was about 600 i think,
but all was needed for me to do well on my course, if i hadnt done the course i would be on a low paid **** job paying little into the system, but i didnt i got the help i needed, i know earn a good wage, pay a lot of tax. So i cant see how anyone could say it was wasted money, or that i shouldnt have receved it.
They were higher, but no serious employer is going to spend time scrutinising anybody's GCSE grades.
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aarrrgggghhhh!!!!
what the hell are kids getting taught these days?!?!?!
English is not about English and Maths is not about Maths?!?!?!
Do they just give out A*s and free Happy Meals to anyone who bothers to turn up and doesn't knife a teacher?????
If you do maths you will know maths is nothing about adding. Im looking to do it at unvercity. Adding is just a simple task that is almost always done on a calculator these days or in spreadsheets. Maths is about understanding algibra, equations, calculus extra. You couldn't really understand what maths is about unless you have gone into some deapth. But i assure you adding is nothing compared to these skills.
As for english, well don't really know. All i know is you don't need to be able to spell to get top grades, grama is a must. But like i said before my grama is not bad if i try hard. On the forums i just don't care about my grama. Its a causual place to chat. The only people who do care are up their own arses.
why would you talk about GCSE english? it qualifys you for nothing and is very very basic. even i got an A in that. (scottish equivlant)
english is aboutyour writng skill and criticaly evaluating peices of writing. not checking for spelling mistakes and grammer.
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Sure they were harder. But you didn;t have about 18 exams covering so many subjects and topics.
That in its self is a hard chalange. Besides as said before, gcses mean nothing.
Perhaps if you make the effort to become consciously competent at English, you will in time become unconsciously competent which I would say that I am. Spelling properly requires no effort, it comes naturally from years of practice.
I am the one who said that a high grade in GCSE English Language should be proof of a good general level of literacy. Evidently from this thread it is no such thing, is it?
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Please understand ive tryed very hard with spelling. Primary school is all about spelling. I had it beaten into me that i was thick and rubbish i got put in the lowest set for everything because i couldn't spell. Gramer is more to do with logic in my eyes its differnt.
Trying to spell correctly requires a lot of thought but at the end of the day you cant spell a word you don't know how to spell unless its spelt how it sounds. So many words i spell over and over again and get wrong every time and there are so many thousands of words that if you struggle that much you wont ever manage to spell many of them correctly.
The other problem with dyslexia is that i do know how to spell many words i get wrong. I get them wrong because for some reason what im thinking is not what comes out when im writing. My eye doctor person is one of the head people in the country, i got lucky she works localy to me, she explained that its a totaly differnt way the brain works. It cant be fixed or changed, it gives dyslexics a totaly differnt set of skills are the downside of being terribly flawed in others. Dysleixcs are naturaly a lot better at spacial things. Being an enginer for example (not the fake people, i mean people that go to uni and get a degree lol). a lot of enginers are dislexic for that reason.
My spelling is a lot better when typing i assure you of that too.
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There is more to life then spelling. I fail to see your problem with this. If i can look through an article and pick out key points, write an essay on it and manipulate it. That is English. a lot of people can't do this.
Spelling proves nothing, it has no baring on intelligence. The only people who say that are those that are only good at spelling in my experience.
Mathmatical dyslexia is another thing asw well. Getting numbers in the wrong orders must be terrible. Simple things like trying to find your room in a hotel.
You would probably seek more sympathy from some of the more aggressive posters if you did bother to learn to spell words like these. Niether of those are anything to do with dyslexia, you have spelt them foe-neh-tick-ah-lee.
I'm never jump down anyones throat for the occational bad spelling, but those two mistakes are based purely on laziness. If you want respect for your disorder, you can't let your standards drop completely.
For the record, I didn't notice the missing I from university until I re-read my own post.
easy to say, you shouldn't have been given it and it was a waste of the taxpayers money.
I'm sorry but it's the same argument, I still can't see (and obviously never will) that some people should be given handouts for stuff that everyone else has to buy themselves. It is unfair to others and is reverse discrimination. If I were at uni and in masses of debt it would infuriate me that someone else on my course had been given a £1500 laptop and I'd had to buy one from my own student overdraft. There is no justification for a laptop this expensive, a £250 one from purple worlds spell checker would do exactly the same job!! It's just that someone has the authority to hand out freebies at no personal cost to themselves and thinks "it's not my money, let them have whatever they ask for".
aarrrgggghhhh!!!!
what the hell are kids getting taught these days?!?!?!
English is not about English and Maths is not about Maths?!?!?!
Do they just give out A*s and free Happy Meals to anyone who bothers to turn up and doesn't knife a teacher?????
if it was that simple then yes they would give out free happy meals.
iv done university level maths. Not once are we expected to know who to add multiply etc. it all about abstract concepts, imaginary numbers, super symmetrise, integration of matrices etc. and since you are always allowed a calculator you never need to think about simple stuff suck as adding multiplying. Anyone watch the Horizon about maths?? where they had a Cambridge maths lecturer, he explained why maths isn't about adding quite well, and also he was asked simple multiplication as a test and he got some wrong.
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Don't worry about it, it really isn't a big deal, but thanks for your concern
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