User talk:MAJC student

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Gad's Hill School
Hi there - apologies, but I have reverted the changes you made to Gad's Hill School, as I didn't think the changes you made were improvements or that they resolved the tagged issues. I'm afraid the statement "the school has been given a English grading of 67%, 6% above the national average. and a math grading of 59%, 20% above the national average" just doesn't make sense in the UK context, and in any case would need a reliable source given.

Could you please also make sure you use correct punctuation and, for British articles, use British English? So "honoured", not "honored", and "terms", not "semesters".

Many thanks for trying to improve the article, and please do feel free to put some more work into it. Let me know if I can help you with your understanding of editing. Best wishes, Tacyarg (talk) 20:24, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Hey tacyarg, I am very new to this and I am not sure if i am communicating properly I whould have to disagree with the changes. my contribution to the page was minimal, but there is noting on the page but a choppy sentance and some disconnected museings about tradition. I did cite my source at the bottom of the page and i do have experience with the English language, finnaly was referring to the national average of the united kingdom and semesters was the term used on the site. my approach may not be the best but that page needs additions and not subtractions. Gods blessings, MAJC student (talk) 00:56, 18 September 2018 (UTC)MAJC student


 * Hi MAJC student, thanks for your reply. You're totally right that the article needs additions. I have hacked out some of the rubbish about tradition and added some currently blank sections about school history, inspection results and academic performance. Do you want to have a go at finding sourced information to put in them? The school website is generally not considered a reliable source. For inspection results, try the Independent Schools Inspectorate. For exam results, try the Department for Education's performance tables. If you find the school and click on Secondary you should see the GCSE results data. It's usually not helpful with independent schools like this to give the England and local authority figures as well as the school figures, as independent schools will almost always get much better results. Re the history - try searching Google books maybe? This may be trickier. You might find the place of Dickens' death mentioned in a biography of him on gutenburg.org maybe.


 * Hope that's helpful, let me know if you have any questions, and don't feel you have to edit the article at all if you don't feel like it.

Best wishes, Tacyarg (talk) 12:08, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

thank you for getting all this and helping me learn how this works, ill not be working on the gads hill article much because I have other projects now MAJC student (talk) 15:32, 18 September 2018 (UTC)