Sentences with phrase «gcse exam system»

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Chris Keates: «This year's GCSE exam entrants have had to cope with a raft of rushed through and ill - conceived changes to the qualifications system and so today's results are especially commendable».

Each year's exam results are followed by public and media allegations that the «absolute standard» which GCSE grades are intended to represent (in contrast to the «quota» grading system of the previous exam systems) is being degraded.

Preparing for the GCSE Business Communication Systems A267 exam.

Exam regulator Ofqual have explained that there will be «significant improvements» to the process of appealing against GCSE and A-level results, with proposals for a better system announced later this month.

Around 70 per cent of parents and pupils surveyed by the exams regulator Ofqual did not understand the new numerical GCSE grading system.

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As we enter the A-Level and GCSE results season, it's important that we have confidence in our exams system; all too often those who have gained qualifications then face negative media stories around them.

But in June 2016, this decision was reversed by new Education Minister Peter Weir and pupils will now be allowed to sit GCSE grades from English exam boards giving results using the 9 - 1 system.

Chris Keates, leader of the NASUWT teachers» union, said this year's GCSE exam entrants had to «cope with a raft of rushed through and ill - conceived changes to the qualifications system and so today's results are especially commendable».

This year's GCSE candidates were the first to sit «tough» new exams under a reformed curriculum - here's what the new grading system means

Exams regulator Ofqual said it was «essential» that the major changes were communicated to a wide audience, and that research shows that understanding of the new grading system and other GCSE reforms has increased.

Under proposed reforms to the system by which schools can challenge results, set out recently by the exams regulator Ofqual, exam boards will eventually have to accept requests from schools for access to marked GCSE papers, as they already currently do for A levels, but it is not yet know when this will be implemented.

A revised set of GCSE exams are going to be graded by numbers - from 9 down to 1 - rather than the current letter - based system in a process that will be phased in from next year.

Teenagers beginning their GCSE courses in 2012 will do their exams under the new system - at the end of their courses.

Major changes in the exam systems and more students taking subjects like maths and English early mean it is becoming increasingly difficult to interpret GCSE statistics.

Addressing how the exam system is perceived is particularly important, as this is considered a key barrier to pupils opting to continue with language learning at GCSE and beyond.

If you didn't experience the new GCSE system during last year's exams, there are a few key differences from the old papers that you'll need to get your head around.

There is widespread confusion about England's new GCSE grading system, says the exams regulator Ofqual.

The Welsh government says it will not be rushed into following any changes to the GCSE and is carrying out its own separate review into the exam system.

The plan to reform the exam system comes amid controversy over this year's GCSE English exams - with head teachers claiming that grade boundaries have been unfairly altered.

The report pointed to the controversy of last summer's English GCSE results as an example of the «turbulence» that could be caused by changes to the exam system.

This battle over last summer's GCSE English results has been a rancorous, divisive episode, revealing deep levels of distrust among head teachers for those running the exam system.