Everyone still mentally converting GCSE numbers into ‘proper grades’ | NewsThump
SATIRE15 days ago|Discuss (0)|Education
Article written by Andy Matthews
Britain's entire adult population is running an illegal mental conversion service every time a teenager waves a GCSE result in their face, because '6' means absolutely nothing to a generation raised on A-to-U. The real gem is young Jake, who has correctly identified that the new system is essentially a cheat code for extracting driving lessons from unsuspecting parents who never read the instructions.
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Jake Williams is clearly the top number-one student in his class, and his parents couldn't be prouder.
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