Sentences with phrase «by exam boards»

«The decision over grade boundaries is made by exam boards — not by politics or anybody else,» he said.

The paper uses command words use by the exam board.

The lesson requires a practical as required by the exam board.

However, essays are not graded by exam boards, so it is unclear how they would be able to do this!

At a briefing this morning by the exam boards, a spokesperson said that entry patterns had changed.

Two controlled assessment units in a computing GCSE have been withdrawn by an exam board, after the answers appeared on the internet.

It showed up as part of a «thorough forensic analysis» run by the exam board.

Our books are recommended by the exam boards and provide a comprehensive and detailed insight into the travel industry.

In a maths GCSE paper set by exam board Pearson, pupils were asked the following:

We can plot the marks given by the exam board to the script and the marks derived from judging.

But two investigations by exam board OCR also influenced the Department for Education's decision after it upheld two accusations of exam malpractice in a single subject.

For both essays we obtained scripts that had been marked by the exam board, and included them in judging — transcribed, and with the marks removed.

Detectives from the Met police launched an investigation after being informed by exam board Pearson on Friday that an exam paper for its Edexcel C4 A-level maths was being sold online.

But the proposal has been rejected by the exam board which said its content «overlapped» with new physics and design & technology A-levels.

The questions in this paper are based upon the style and wording of those found in the sample assessment materials provided by the exam board so as to help prepare students as much as possible for their exam.

The option is being considered by the exam board OCR, who could enlist markers from countries such as Spain and South Africa.

Despite the rise in penalties for staff malpractice, overall results were fairly similar to previous years, with 2,430 total penalties issued by exam boards - broadly the same as the 2,460 penalties issued in 2015.

However, those activities are very easily transferrable to any other film suggested by any exam boards.

This production fits the AQA Theatre Studies criteria for the style of Creative Adaptation which is defined by the exam board as an adaptation of a well - known novel or poem.

The validity of the scale depends on the teachers» shared understanding of what good looks like matching the same set of skills rewarded by the exam board markers.

«So we were especially disappointed this year to find that not enough had been done by exam boards to change these old practices and meet our revised expectations for reviews of marking.

But Ms Stacey said predictions shouldn't be affected, highlighting research by exam board AQA that found no difference between results achieved by those who did take the test and those who did not.

Previously, a further appeal after a review would focus only on the procedures used by the exam board when marking the test, but schools will now be able to appeal the mark itself if they believe it was not corrected during the review.

«I need to know there is a level playing field for my students who have slogged their guts out over the past year to do each of the 20 - hour controlled assessment tasks without any direction from me as dictated by the exam board.»

But only careful analysis by exam boards and schools will eventually unearth what happened.

Ms Frederick says the moderation report shows that teachers» assessments had been checked and verified by the exam board - in this case AQA - and called on Ofqual to provide evidence to show why such moderated assessments should then be downgraded.

Another trend identified by exam boards has been the continuing decline in pupils taking GCSEs in modern languages, with falling numbers in French, German and Spanish.

Just look at the Royal Society of Chemistry's concerns over the current GCSE syllabus produced by the exam boards.

«And that is the result of the independent judgements made by exam boards entirely free from any political pressure.»

In April 2016, Ofqual was notified by OCR that a textbook, OCR Computing for GCSE, published in August 2012 and endorsed by the exam board, appeared to include a solution to two parts of its 2016 controlled assessment tasks.

More than 45,000 students are to resit their English GCSEs next month after a row about grades, figures given to the BBC by exam boards show.

«It seems efforts to embed the revised rules for reviews have varied by exam board and subject and that some reviewers changed marks where there was no error with original marking,» Ofqual stated.

Teachers have not been able to predict their pupils» results, and the information provided by exam boards about the standards expected was entirely inadequate.

Some teachers who help to write exams will have samples of their lesson plans checked by exam boards under new rules to tackle cheating by teacher - examiners.

Following a ruling by the Information Commissioner, it emerged that the data would be supplied by exam boards to Ofqual.

The newspaper said its undercover reporters went to 13 meetings organised by exam boards used by English schools.

The changes, put forward by exam boards with advice from academics, flesh out government plans for A-level reforms.

The latest data shows a 3 % increase in approved requests for access arrangements by exam boards, compared with 2013/14.

Discovery Education has announced the addition of over 70 videos for set texts, novels set by an exam board,...

All complied by studying exemplar materials given by all exam boards.

The suggestion that that has happened has always been roundly rejected by the exam boards and by the previous Labour government.

Ofqual has published an undertaking made by the exam board, in which it admits to not having «acted sufficiently» to change the behaviour and practices of reviewers after new rules came in last year.

The figures, produced by Ofqual based on information provided by exam boards, show that 37 schools in England, Wales and Northern Ireland were found to have provided unwarranted assistance to candidates this summer.

They have been compiled by studying exemplar materials given by all exam boards.

Discovery Education has announced the addition of over 70 videos for set texts, novels set by an exam board, which students are asked to study for their English Literature GCSEs.

The median mark was 14 (9 marks higher than given by the exam board) but the spread of marks ran from 8 to 17 (just about half the possible marks on offer!).

This script was given a mark of 5 by the exam board, but judged to be the best script out of all the marked essays.