Sentences with phrase «difficulty of exam papers»
National Association of Head Teachers» leader Russell Hobby said some variation in the difficulty of exam papers from year to year was inevitable.
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«It's more difficult to make an accurate judgement of the likely difficulty of just one exam paper or question, it is far easier and more reliable to compare two questions and rate which is going to be more difficult.»
Mr Sheldon told the High Court in London that in one AQA exam unit the mark needed to achieve a C rose from 43 to 53 marks out of 80 from January to June although there was no change in the difficulty of the paper.
In recent years there have been a number of occasions when candidates condemned question papers on social media - on some occasions, the concerns they raised about the level of difficulty were not reflected in the exam results.
Because exam papers differ between exam boards and each year, the level of difficulty can vary slightly.
The exam will also have a greater spectrum of questions within a single paper, graded from easy to hard to show their difficulty.