Re: [LU] nonLU: bored?

2011-09-16 Thread Jezz Thorpe
13 out of 15. 8 15 wrong should have got 8 right but can someone give me the key to the last one. So back to Scarborough Boys High for me. Anyone else go there? Sent from my iPhone On 15 Sep 2011, at 10:54, Richard Naef rich...@triumph-computers.co.uk wrote: try the eleven plus!

Re: [LU] nonLU: bored?

2011-09-16 Thread Graham White
Gonks - that takes me back! Graham White   --- On Thu, 15/9/11, Jeremy Adams jeremyadam...@hotmail.com wrote: From: Jeremy Adams jeremyadam...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: [LU] nonLU: bored? To: Leeds List leedslist@gn.apc.org Date: Thursday, 15 September, 2011, 19:52 15 out of 15Top of the

Re: [LU] nonLU: bored?

2011-09-16 Thread Tim Leslie
Yes sir, sorry sir! Actually all this proved is that the current Oh exams are getting easier than in our day stance is bollox. 11 Plus - I'm Oxford material. In the real world - I got 5 O Levels and 3 CSE's (For anyone younger than 30 CSE's were the most pointless qualification ever. Lasted about

Re: [LU] nonLU: bored?

2011-09-16 Thread Richard Naef
Yes sir, sorry sir! Actually all this proved is that the current Oh exams are getting easier than in our day stance is bollox. 11 Plus - I'm Oxford material. In the real world - I got 5 O Levels and 3 CSE's (For anyone younger than 30 CSE's were the most pointless qualification ever. Lasted about

Re: [LU] nonLU: bored?

2011-09-16 Thread McWilliams, Brendan, VF-Group (bmcwill)
...i started the quiz yesterday but got tied up doing something I should have been doing but it looked a bit tricky!! And that after having passed the 11+ with an A a year early at primary - if I may be so immodest to say. If I recall, there wasn't much study involved, rather a LOT of past

[LU] non LU - cricket

2011-09-16 Thread David Brennan
Message: 1 Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:10:36 +0100 (BST) From: DAVID NATTAN david.nat...@btinternet.com To: list leedslist leedslist@gn.apc.org Subject: [LU] non LU - cricket Lancashire la la la ? - champions, champions, championsOr at least we will be in the next few minutes Oh and don't

Re: [LU] non LU - cricket

2011-09-16 Thread Robert Dufton
Quite bloody right! Couldn't agree more Dave. Geoff Boycott take note. BobD From: David Brennan d.r.bren...@leeds.ac.uk To: leedslist@gn.apc.org leedslist@gn.apc.org Sent: Friday, 16 September, 2011 11:34:00 Subject: [LU] non LU - cricket Message: 1 Date:

Re: [LU] non LU - cricket

2011-09-16 Thread Robert Dufton
just to clarify... Quite right David _Brennan_. Shame on you David Nattan. BobD Leeds/Yorkshire/England From: Robert Dufton robertduf...@talk21.com To: David Brennan d.r.bren...@leeds.ac.uk; leedslist@gn.apc.org leedslist@gn.apc.org Sent: Friday, 16

Re: [LU] nonLU: bored?

2011-09-16 Thread David Brennan
Yes sir, sorry sir! Actually all this proved is that the current Oh exams are getting easier than in our day stance is bollox. But they are getting easier. I asked recently at a parent's night in my boy's high school when they start differentiation and calculus, they said at A level. In

Re: [LU] nonLU: bored?

2011-09-16 Thread Richard Naef
Yes sir, sorry sir! Actually all this proved is that the current Oh exams are getting easier than in our day stance is bollox. But they are getting easier. I asked recently at a parent's night in my boy's high school when they start differentiation and calculus, they said at A level. In my

Re: [LU] nonLU: bored?

2011-09-16 Thread matt
As an education person. I totally agree. Teaching methods, technology are way ahead of my school days. Problem is the need to show success with bollox like A*s. It should always be based on %. Top 10 get A next 10 B etc If you are in a strong year then tough that way everyone knows where

Re: [LU] non LU - cricket

2011-09-16 Thread Paul Cundell
Lancashire la la la ? - champions, champions, championsOr at least we will be in the next few minutes Oh and don't forget the Yorkshire sheep botherers - going down, going down, going down. Get in there !!! I simply don't understand how you can be a Leeds United supporter, and yet

Re: [LU] nonLU: bored?

2011-09-16 Thread Matt Anderson
Stuff that was moved out of gcse was less relevant stuff hence if you want to do A level you might need it but otherwise not. Universities are getting easier. Am in Kazakhstan at moment and they are not sending students for BA/Bsc to UK as much now partly because standards are dropping at lesser

Re: [LU] nonLU: bored?

2011-09-16 Thread Alec McQueen
V straightforward. Just look at the patterns of the first, third, fifth, and then the second, fourth, sixth numbers. Took me 2 seconds to see it. But then I am an analyst (and I went to grammar school). Cheers Alec On 16/09/2011, at 5:20 PM, Jezz Thorpe jezz.tho...@zen.co.uk wrote: 13 out

Re: [LU] nonLU: bored?

2011-09-16 Thread Richard Naef
Universities are getting easier. Am in Kazakhstan at moment and they are not sending students for BA/Bsc to UK as much now partly because standards are dropping at lesser unis to get people/fees in Well uni intake has gone from about 15% to 48% so obviously it's easier to get in. I'd guess the

Re: [LU] nonLU: bored?

2011-09-16 Thread Matt Anderson
48% socialist dream to make uni attainable. Good motives but like Arsenal you can expand but if the product is getting worse people wont pay or come and you end up filling it with freebies. I'm in vocational education anyway so I would like to see uni places capped at 25% and the rest put into

Re: [LU] nonLU: bored?

2011-09-16 Thread matt
All about perception! I know the team that runs this ranking QS. 3% of govt funded kazakhs who come to UK come to Leeds. Leeds united is quite well known here Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -Original Message- From: Richard Naef rich...@triumph-computers.co.uk Sender:

Re: [LU] nonLU: bored?

2011-09-16 Thread Leeds List
Brendan, Not really sure where the Old Firm would fit into the English structure. They would want to go straight into the Prem for the money but which clubs would move to let them? Also politically a disaster for the SFA in UEFA terms. Would anyone here want them at the expense of Leeds ?

Re: [LU] non LU - cricket

2011-09-16 Thread Richard Walker
Dave, there's something really not right about your post below Sent from my iPad On 15 Sep 2011, at 17:10, DAVID NATTAN david.nat...@btinternet.com wrote: Lancashire la la la - champions, champions, championsOr at least we will be in the next few minutes Oh and don't forget the Yorkshire

Re: [LU] non LU - cricket

2011-09-16 Thread DAVID NATTAN
I can't see anything wrong with it - We ARE champions and Yorkshire ARE relegated. As for the how can you support Leeds United and Lancashire - to me it is only the same as our overseas fans who support LUFC and their own country and not England. I assume all you Yorks fans still 'hate'  

Re: [LU] non LU - cricket

2011-09-16 Thread Robert Heath
County cricket has been a total disaster for 12 months. A year ago, it was wancashire losing pathetically in their last match which cost Yorkshire the Title. Now 12 months later, Warwickshire destroyed Yorkshire, and then, when we bizarrely played them again the next week, stupidly failed to

[LU] Sabella

2011-09-16 Thread Robert Heath
Sorry if this has already been mentioned, but I just noticed that Alex Sabella is now the boss of Argentina. By my reckoning, that makes 3 countries (NI Wales being the others) who have ex-Whites at the helm. That may be a record, although it probably won't be for long b/c Worthington may not

[LU] non LU - cricket - I take it back re Yorks - well one of them anyway

2011-09-16 Thread DAVID NATTAN
What a debut innings from the lad from Yorkshire - Johnny Bairstow 41 off 21 balls when the pressure was really on and it looked like we may lose, as good a debut as you will ever see in the circumstances. Dave of LEEDS UNITED !!! ___ Leedslist mailing

Re: [LU] nonLU: bored?

2011-09-16 Thread Damian Walsh
14/15 in 5'54 Last one tripped me up too On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Tim Leslie t...@3leafieldvillas.co.ukwrote: 14 out of 15 ... In 4:47! On 15 Sep 2011, at 16:47, Steve Gillen steve.gil...@ntlworld.com wrote: ___ Leedslist mailing list

Re: [LU] nonLU: bored?

2011-09-16 Thread Damian Walsh
Just checked my past O Level papers (AEB + London + Oxford Cambridge flash cards) from 76 - 78 Only Differential equation questions in the London exam board papers - and they were based on the formula resolution of a differential equation rather than knowing/ understanding either Liebnitz's or

Re: [LU] nonLU: bored?

2011-09-16 Thread Ian Murray
My favourite thing about calculus (A level in my experience) was dy/dx in a jamaican accent. Dee why over dee ex. Made us laugh anyway. Sent from my iPhone On 17 Sep 2011, at 00:31, Damian Walsh pussaydam...@gmail.com wrote: Just checked my past O Level papers (AEB + London + Oxford

Re: [LU] nonLU: bored?

2011-09-16 Thread Robert Heath
15 out of 15! (98%) Yippee! I can got to Eton now, learn how to get pissed and smash up restuarants, and in a few years I could be Prime Minister. ___ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To