Sentences with phrase «between exam boards»

Because exam papers differ between exam boards and each year, the level of difficulty can vary slightly.

Parents and schools, facing the bill for re-marks, will see how much the costs vary between exam boards.

After the letters came to light on Tuesday, Edexcel said: «Where the grade boundaries were positioned for GCSE English was clearly a matter of extensive discussion this year between exam boards and the regulator.

Review requests cost approximately # 50 per paper at A-level — with only marginal variation between exam boards.

The chairman of the Independent Schools Association warned that schools may feel forced to choose A-level courses because of links between exam boards and universities.

I think Michael Gove is absolutely right to reduce the competition between the exam boards for English, maths and science, which have undoubtedly been downgraded through competition.

The options for re-marks in GCSE art or art and design subjects can vary between exam boards, so speak to your school to find out what applies.

The correlations between exam board marks and the mark derived from judging were 0.86 and 0.89.

A war of words has broken out between an exam board chief and the Department for Education over claims of an examiner staffing shortage.

With the rogue script removed the correlation between the exam board marks and the CJ marks rises to 0.88.

The correlation between the exam board marks for reading and writing for the 9 scripts is 0.57.

An email exchange seen by Schools Week between an exam board and the qualification reform team within the Department for Education (DfE) showed that civil servants acknowledge the list should have been updated in March.

Sally Collier, chief regulator Ofqual, said while grade standards between exams boards in the same subject are expected to be comparable, inter-subject comparability is «more difficult to consider».

Not exact matches

He put forward the idea of having one exam board for each subject, which he argued would eliminate this competition between boards and provide more consistency of grades.

And the College Board, the organization that administers the AP program, reports that the share of AP exams receiving the minimum passing score of 3 or better declined by four percentage points between 2003 and 2008.

He called for the «dividing up [of exam boards] between different subjects, so there's one examination board for maths, and one examination board for English.»

To investigate the relationship between marking and judging we obtained 9 marked scripts from an exam board from across the mark range.

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

Correspondence between Ofqual and the boards shows that the exam boards were under pressure from Ofqual to guard against grade inflation.

Ormiston annual accounts for the 2016 year show Salt, who will leave to join exam board AQA later this year, is now paid between # 205,000 and # 210,000.

Exam boards refund the re-marking fee if an exam is changed - but not if the grade remains the same, with fees costing between about # 20 and # 60 per paExam boards refund the re-marking fee if an exam is changed - but not if the grade remains the same, with fees costing between about # 20 and # 60 per paexam is changed - but not if the grade remains the same, with fees costing between about # 20 and # 60 per paper.

Mvula is supporting the Action in Music campaign, a partnership between Casio, Classic FM and the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music exam board, which aims to raise the profile of music education by providing free music tickets for young people and celebrating a music teacher of the Board of the Royal Schools of Music exam board, which aims to raise the profile of music education by providing free music tickets for young people and celebrating a music teacher of the board, which aims to raise the profile of music education by providing free music tickets for young people and celebrating a music teacher of the year.

Higher tier papers must strike a balance between testing the content aimed at grade 4 and 5 students, and providing challenging questions on the grade 9 content and it's important that exam boards are consistent in this.

NUT Wales secretary David Evans said: «Between January and June, exam boards changed the grade boundaries in such a way that many pupils who would have scored a C in January, scored a D in June - for exactly the same work.