Earlier Clive Lewis, QC for AQA, said the board had followed official guidelines in deciding to
alter the grade boundaries between the January and June papers and was satisfied that the June results were correct.
An excel spread sheet that allow you to easily set and
alter grade boundaries to give the desired distribution of grades.
But Edexcel responded on 8 August, setting out why it believed it had already
altered the grade boundary sufficiently and set it correctly.
Not exact matches
Ofqual has refused to permit
grade boundaries to be
altered after it emerged they were shifted upwards.
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.
In an open letter to Education Secretary Michael Gove and Ofqual on Friday, the NAHT suggested
grade boundaries in English had been «significantly
altered» during the year in response to suggestions the pass rate would rise again.