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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...
CAGs, TAGs and mutant algorithms
In 2020 and 2021, formal 'sit-down' school exams in England were cancelled because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Students, though, still...
Grade (un)reliability - the full story
Over the last few weeks, I've been working on a document that tells the full story about grade (un)reliability, including * why grade...
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...
