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It is not true to claim one could not take S levels without taking the A level. I have 2 S levels: one in History and one in English. My English teacher taught me a couple of lunchtimes a week as I was already taking too many A levels for the timetable. He contacted the examination board and I was permitted to take the S level without having done the A level. It was rare to do so, certainly, but it was permitted.
This page doesn't say which board was responsible for the S papers? Do you have any examples of papers or links to papers? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.147.254.137 ( talk) 01:50, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
'S'-Levels were at one time graded, Distinction, Merit and Credit (1,2 and 3). Then Credit was dropped, so that there were only the 2 grades of Distinction and Merit. 86.136.61.102 ( talk) 02:57, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
Is there anyone anywhere out there who has heard of S levels or Special levels refered to as "Scholarship level". This looks to me like a case of someone making a term up when they didn't know what the "S" meant. I cannot find the term in the reference provided (which refers to S and AS) but perhaps it is a pdf search problem-- BozMo talk 12:51, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
I, too, only knew it as a Special paper but this was the 1990s so perhaps it evolved to be known as such? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.111.129.86 ( talk) 23:37, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
The article currently includes this paragraph:
Up until and including 1960, the actual mark in steps of 5 was provided to candidates. The S level Higher Maths papers were not marked unless at least 75(Distinction) was secured in the A level Pure and/or Applied mathematics papers. The marks were normalised, but usually completion of 2 or 3 questions of the 10 was stated by the examiners on the paper to be sufficient to secure a distinction (75). The highest possible score was 90 for ten excellent answers, due to normalisation. The subject matter was identical to the A level syllabus, but the questions very considerably harder.
I think this is mostly needlessly detailed, unclear, and unsourced, but I've resisted removing it because some of it could be relevant, and anyway that wouldn't leave us with much of an article. Also, I know that Mathematics was not the only Scholarship/Special paper, nor was Pure/Applied relevant throughout the life of the paper. -- benmachine ( talk) 10:14, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
I am the proud owner of a Grade 1 In French (from the very twilight of the thing in the mid 90's) and I don't care. It was like ballet dancing- if you were into it enough, everyone thought you were a poof but it was easy. Someone nicked my certificate but I put a spell on them so they are now impotent : )
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— Dah31 ( talk) 06:29, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
A 3-grade is called Credit (see above). It's no wonder you did not apply or get into Oxbridge. 86.182.43.181 ( talk) 02:53, 15 December 2017 (UTC)
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It is not true to claim one could not take S levels without taking the A level. I have 2 S levels: one in History and one in English. My English teacher taught me a couple of lunchtimes a week as I was already taking too many A levels for the timetable. He contacted the examination board and I was permitted to take the S level without having done the A level. It was rare to do so, certainly, but it was permitted.
This page doesn't say which board was responsible for the S papers? Do you have any examples of papers or links to papers? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.147.254.137 ( talk) 01:50, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
'S'-Levels were at one time graded, Distinction, Merit and Credit (1,2 and 3). Then Credit was dropped, so that there were only the 2 grades of Distinction and Merit. 86.136.61.102 ( talk) 02:57, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
Is there anyone anywhere out there who has heard of S levels or Special levels refered to as "Scholarship level". This looks to me like a case of someone making a term up when they didn't know what the "S" meant. I cannot find the term in the reference provided (which refers to S and AS) but perhaps it is a pdf search problem-- BozMo talk 12:51, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
I, too, only knew it as a Special paper but this was the 1990s so perhaps it evolved to be known as such? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.111.129.86 ( talk) 23:37, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
The article currently includes this paragraph:
Up until and including 1960, the actual mark in steps of 5 was provided to candidates. The S level Higher Maths papers were not marked unless at least 75(Distinction) was secured in the A level Pure and/or Applied mathematics papers. The marks were normalised, but usually completion of 2 or 3 questions of the 10 was stated by the examiners on the paper to be sufficient to secure a distinction (75). The highest possible score was 90 for ten excellent answers, due to normalisation. The subject matter was identical to the A level syllabus, but the questions very considerably harder.
I think this is mostly needlessly detailed, unclear, and unsourced, but I've resisted removing it because some of it could be relevant, and anyway that wouldn't leave us with much of an article. Also, I know that Mathematics was not the only Scholarship/Special paper, nor was Pure/Applied relevant throughout the life of the paper. -- benmachine ( talk) 10:14, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
I am the proud owner of a Grade 1 In French (from the very twilight of the thing in the mid 90's) and I don't care. It was like ballet dancing- if you were into it enough, everyone thought you were a poof but it was easy. Someone nicked my certificate but I put a spell on them so they are now impotent : )
Anon user Contributions/79.65.133.218 left these comments in the article:
— Dah31 ( talk) 06:29, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
A 3-grade is called Credit (see above). It's no wonder you did not apply or get into Oxbridge. 86.182.43.181 ( talk) 02:53, 15 December 2017 (UTC)