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Students will study about illegal performance enhancing drug use and the the barriers that limit female involvement in sports in the new PE GCSE from exam board OCR.
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Ofqual have released the findings from its investigation into the marking issues exam board OCR experienced in summer 2014 that put GCSE and A-level marks at risk of not being delivered on time.
It is based on the information from the Citizenship Studies text book from Hodder and is useful for the OCR GCSE, but it would probably be useful for any exam board since it covers a lot of information on the law.
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.
Ofqual's move also comes after the Telegraph released video footage of a conversation between an undercover reporter and a chief examiner at Edexcel who claimed the company's GCSE geography tests were not as difficult as those from other exam boards
Michael Gove has made a «real mistake» in asking GCSE exam boards to remove US literary classics such as To Kill a Mockingbird and Of Mice and Men from the English Literature syllabus, the National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE) has said.
Edexcel later announced that an internal review, analysing data from all five awarding bodies for GCSE geography, history and English had found that candidates were «no more or less likely» to achieve certain grades with its exams compared with other boards.
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.
Education Minister Peter Weir has decided to allow pupils in Northern Ireland to receive GCSE grades from English exam boards who give results using numbers from 9 - 1.
Northern Ireland pupils will now be able to receive GCSE grades from English exam boards who give the results in numbers not letters
The latest announcement will also require exam boards to make marked GCSE scripts available to schools and colleges before their deadline for requesting a review of marking, from 2020 onwards.
Exam boards will be required to make marked GCSE scripts available to schools, before their deadline for requesting reviews of marking, from the summer of 2020
AQA was the only exam board that increased its share of GCSEs, up from 46 per cent to 53 per cent, which means it now certificates more than half of every GCSE pupils sit.
Mr McKenzie's resignation came as the exam boards and the exam regulator Ofqual were given more time to consider a legal challenge from teaching unions, schools and local authorities asking them to regrade English GCSE papers.
This would mean that within the common currency of the GCSE, there could be different levels of awards for the same piece of work from the same exam board, depending on whether the exam was taken in Wales or England.
The watchdog won a legal challenge from schools, heads and pupils over the grading of last year's English GCSE results, after exam boards were told to move grade boundaries.