In England, every year, more than a million high school students take GCSE (age 16), AS (age 17) and A level (age 18) exams. The grades...

In 2020 and 2021, formal 'sit-down' school exams in England were cancelled because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Students, though, still...

Over the last few weeks, I've been working on a document that tells the full story about grade (un)reliability, including * why grade...

On 27th November 2018, Ofqual published some important measures of the reliability of GCSE and A level examinations in 14 subjects -...

For many months now, the websit e of Pearson, the owners of the edexcel examination board, has been boasting that “99.2% of our grades...

In principle, the exam appeals process should right inadvertent wrongs; in practice, the process is deeply unfair, as is the process by...

Over the last several years, Ofqual, the regulator of school examinations in England and Wales, has been conducting an extensive research...

Grade misallocations real... ​ ​My blog How reliable are GCSE and A level grades? featured a chart, published by the exam regulator...