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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...

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...

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

How reliable are GCSE and A level grades?
Over the last several years, Ofqual, the regulator of school examinations in England and Wales, has been conducting an extensive research...

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...