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Post by dudleyhatter on Aug 23, 2017 16:45:59 GMT
For mash get Smash...
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Aug 23, 2017 18:23:30 GMT
they're the fellas maccy. cheers!
i was also a fan of toffos. the one with mixed flavours in particular, although that did expose you to the nastiness of the banana one...
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Aug 23, 2017 19:00:10 GMT
Ooh - I could have devoured a whole packet of the banana ones!
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Post by gazz on Aug 23, 2017 19:12:00 GMT
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Aug 23, 2017 19:17:16 GMT
And, prior to that, Opal Mints! Don't get me started on that other name-change to bl**dy 'Starburst'...
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Post by gazz on Aug 23, 2017 19:20:03 GMT
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Post by gazz on Aug 23, 2017 19:21:01 GMT
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Aug 23, 2017 19:44:31 GMT
i think i put a wembley trophy size 5 through my grandad's porch window. pacers were another good one. and these, featuring a future county player on one of the cards:
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Post by jimboslovechild on Aug 24, 2017 6:57:46 GMT
Today is GCSE results day: Remember to tell a youngster that the exams are much easier nowadays.
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Post by gazz on Aug 24, 2017 7:40:07 GMT
Today is GCSE results day: Remember to tell a youngster that the exams are much easier nowadays. not to mention the school toilet roll in our day which was the same stuff they had in motorway service stations, which was like greaseproof paper - more suited to spreading than cleaning! The only plus side was that you sometimes knew when it was that kind of paper before you got there, because more often than not you could hear the paper and comb kazoo symphony in D minor drifting into the corridor! Horrible stuff!
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Post by archie on Aug 24, 2017 8:16:26 GMT
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Aug 24, 2017 18:34:50 GMT
surely somebody else has tried the 10 questions? i was surprised to get 9, mostly through guesswork, but rather stupidly second guessed myself on number five.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2017 19:19:03 GMT
surely somebody else has tried the 10 questions? i was surprised to get 9, mostly through guesswork, but rather stupidly second guessed myself on number five. Managed to get no1 wrong which as a mechanical engineer working for a business that manufactures parts for aero engines might/should be a small concern!
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Post by archie on Aug 25, 2017 8:20:09 GMT
I got one wrong as well but in my defence it was a subject (biology) that I never did in school or uni. One of the good things about education today is that it seems to be more broad compared to the tight syllabus lines of my day.
You'd be correct in assuming that the O Level paper was from my year although I took the JMB paper rather than Oxford. There are two major differences over 50 odd years that leap out at me. The 1963 paper requires reasoning/calculations to be shown in reasonable handwriting and there is no help in the way of multiple choice answers. I presume the latter is to aid speedy marking but doesn't seem to have much of a connection with creative thinking or communication.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2017 8:26:15 GMT
The majority of questions these days aren't multiple choice (or they certainly weren't when I did my GCSEs in 2010, and don't seem to be in the papers I've helped my sister revise over the last few years). There might have been one or two, but the styles of questions varied throughout a paper.
Incidentally, id say some of the hardest exams I've ever done have been multiple choice exams at university. Granted they weren't very common, but they were always involved negative marking - meaning you got marks for questions you got right, but lost marks for questions you answered wrong.
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