I wont beat about the bush and say that the educational system in the UK is great; because it is not. However, the level of ¿education? at Kingston University is a joke. I was reading over a past exam paper from last year in a module I was taking this semester in order to prepare myself for the upcoming exams. It took me no longer than 2 minutes to realize how I was actually wasting my time. Allow me to demonstrate:

(5 marks)
Improve the last section of the following setence by selecting one of the options below (i) to (v):

Although several groups were absolutely opposed to the outside support given to the revolutionary government, other groups were as equal in their adamant approval of that support.

1. were as equal in their adamant approval of…
2. held equal adamant approval of…
3. were equally adamant in approving…
4. had approved equally adamantly…
5. held approved equally adamant of…

I’ll spoil your fun to mention, this subject is Project Engineering. Other questions are as complex as reading a graph, working out a number sequence that is as simple as an incrementing differential all equalling 5 marks. Need I not also remind you that the pass mark for the exam is 40%.

I guess having more passes is better than actually caring what you teach your students. May I also remind you that for this same module we had lectures on how to write a CV and an assignment was to hand in what we had done in the lectures, despite the fact we had to write CVs last year to get out placement jobs.

There surely must be something in the staff’s water-supply.

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