When
the end of year exam results were announced I was astonished to find that I had risen in the table from my normal 12th or 13th place in the class, to second.
It was drummed into us from the beginning that we had to constantly have our eye on the distance —
end of year exam results dictated which GCSE options we were allowed to take, and we'd need to choose the right GCSE's to allows us to take the A-Levels we wanted, which in turn were for the purpose of gaining access to the right degree course at the right university.
Not exact matches
Bensnes looked at the
results of written
end -
of -
year exams from the period 2008 - 2011.
Last
year a record number
of pupils from Scotland secured a university place on
exams results day, with 28,300 confirming their position on the course they hoped for, but the charity is urging parents and teachers to remind children it is «not the
end of the world» if they fail to earn the grades they were hoping for.
Now at the
end of its second academic
year of offering students iPods as a learning resource as part
of an overarching commitment to innovation in education, the school has silenced its critics with phenomenal GCSE
exam results.
Few surprises are expected from this
year's crop
of GCSEs, with
results in England now tied to the performance
of the same
year group
of pupils in key stage two
exams at the
end of primary school.
However, as with final
exams, if they are administered at the
end of the school
year, teachers may not get
results in time for an annual conference.
Apart from exceptions such as practical experiments in science, there will be a shift towards
results depending fully on
exams taken at the
end of two
years.
GCSE and A-level
results in England may drop this
year with the switch to
end -
of - course
exams and an
end to winter resits,
exam officers have warned.
Maths GCSE
results for 2016, compared to previous
years The
results for this subject only include those taking
exams at the
end of year 11 (16 -
year - olds) so as...
English GCSE
results for 2016, compared to previous
years The
results for this subject only include those taking
exams at the
end of year 11 (16 -
year - olds) so as...
The need for a rapid turnaround in test scores (so they can be included in
end -
of -
year evaluations) coupled with an increased emphasis on
exam security will
result in increased costs for districts.
What if education were less concerned with the
end -
of -
year exam and more concerned with who students become as a
result of their schooling?