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School exam grades in England can't be trusted

School exam grades in England can't be trusted

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...

Biting the poisoned cherry - why the appeals process for school exams is so unfair

Biting the poisoned cherry - why the appeals process for school exams is so unfair

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

How to make GCSE and A level grades reliable

How to make GCSE and A level grades reliable

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

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School exam grades in England can't be trusted

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No, Pearson. 99.2% of your grades were not accurate

Biting the poisoned cherry - why the appeals process for school exams is so unfair

Teachers behaving badly!

How reliable are GCSE and A level grades?

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