https://www.icslearn.co.uk/blog/gcse-and-a-levels/gcse-resits-the-complete-guide-to-retaking-gcses/
So this may be somewhat interesting for people who have considered in the UK or foreigners who want to compare their own education practices. I've long suspected this anyway due to how universities are run, but for fuck's sake, the setup is a joke.
Imagine you're somebody who's really earnest about fixing your broken arse education and I wouldn't be surprised if there was a lot of people like that and you see that it costs £1,000 just for tuition in that area meaning you're probably better off just learning online by yourself since the teaching is often garbage anyway.
Also looking at the prices of exam centres the average shown is £100 an exam, obviously you go for it with the intention of passing. Though I have to wonder with the exams and the way they work a bunch of other stuff as well because if you can take exams online how easy is that to exploit? Though perhaps they have enough sense that you need to take them in person at an exam centre. I still think that with modern tech your average exam now is probably rife with exploits generally because there's nothing to say the questions can't be leaked online and then you have easy access to the information beforehand.
Looking at the topics they have for GSCE maths too, yet again even in 2023 my complaints about them using abstract maths on students remain valid because you're going to be using a fucking venn diagram and the Pythagoras theorem in all walks of life you monumental dipshits. I'm also somebody who has actually studied Pythagoras theorem for the maths I was looking at with my influence rings in programming but it turns out I didn't need it.
I bet going to a tradesmen school of any kind of variety would probably give a much better maths experience than this because it's stuff you'd actually use like measurements.
I think you haven’t really thought things through
In what regard?
The logistical execution and continuation makes it unrealistic. You’re thinking you can wave a magic wand to make something happen, just like an amateur writer believes they can become Hollywood famous because they wrote a short story
Not what I'm saying though.
In this specific example: if you think you'll be Hollywood famous because you wrote a short story, that's a problem. If you write a short-story to try to become Hollywood famous, that's fine. The problem is spending 4 years of your life and $50-250k to learn something you didn't even need to in order to try to become Hollywood famous, something that was unrealistic in the first place. At least writing a short story is presumably something you like doing and it's not really costing you anything. That's a free option then so why not try for your goals, even if unrealistic?
The scam is in having to spend time, effort and money first, presumably as a prerequisite before you can get something when that something is unrealistic in the first place. It's the same scam dating coaches sell to men. "Pay me money first so I can teach you special knowledge so you can start having sex with hot women". That's a scam. Just like paying for an education to become a Hollywood writer is a scam. Both these outcomes are things that don't require special knowledge to do and both these things are unrealistic outcomes for most people. The people who realistically can get either of these options will already have the options available to them without any special knowledge.
100% agree