Sentences with phrase «exam boards say»

Exam boards say that this year's results have been influenced by the changing age ranges of those taking GCSEs.

However, exam boards say that this is causing pupils to take to social media and make misleading comments through trying to predict their grades.

The exam board said: «To ensure all students are treated fairly, we will put things right when the exam is marked and graded.

The WJEC exam board says the Welsh government could do «immense damage» to the way qualifications are overseen.

In response to the publication by head teachers of the moderation reports, a spokeswoman for the AQA exam board said: «Ofqual found that while individual schools marked their controlled assessment work accurately according to the marking criteria, the national picture showed that some marking had been optimistic.

An exam board says it has been put in a «difficult and unexpected» position after Wales» education minister asked for English GCSEs to be regraded.

The WJEC exam board said it was extremely interested in developing «ambitious new EBC qualifications» proposed by Mr Gove but was also keen to «continue playing a leading role» in developing qualifications for Wales, following completion of the qualifications review.

As well as the internal review into marking, the exam board said schools and exam centres could still challenge individual results, using the traditional appeal route.

Exam boards said they were offering the English resits free of charge to schools as a response to strength of feeling on the issue.

Following the coalition's overhaul of the exam system, the OCR exam board said it would be dropping GCSEs and A-levels in Turkish, Portuguese, Persian, Gujarati and Dutch.

In a statement, the exam board said: «OCR can confirm that a question worth 2 marks out of 90 on an A Level Psychology paper (H567 / 01) was poorly worded.

In a statement, the exam board said: «We're aware of an error in today's OCR GCSE English Literature paper.

Thirty out of 35 respondents agreed with this proposal, but most exam boards said this would make little difference to their current practice.

The WJEC exam board says it is being told to raise GCSE grades in Wales while keeping them down in England.

The AQA exam board said that it was «disappointed» that AS - levels would no longer be part of the wider A-level.

The exam board says it wants conflicting regulators, Ofqual and the Welsh government, to find a more «coherent and rational way forward».

Not exact matches

The National Birth Policy Coalition, a group of midwives and their advocates, say they are willing to undergo a minimum of three to five years of training and pass a national board exam to become certified.

«For example, if they are behind on one milestone, but have met all the other milestones and have a normal exam otherwise, it is much less likely that this indicates something about which to be concerned,» says Dr. Rebecca Isbell, an American - board - certified University of Virginia pediatrician.

«We're going to have more teachers looking at the geometry exams,» Elia said during a brief interview before Monday's monthly meeting of the state Board of Regents.

He said 85, 000 candidates slated for the mop - up exam were notified through text messages and warned those who came late that the board would not reschedule the exam.

Competition causes exam boards to fight to reach the bottom first, a government committee said today.

Commenting on the announcement by exams regulator Ofqual that it is requiring each exam board to take actions to improve the control of exam papers, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said:

He said it was also a deliberate act by the board to withhold about 76,923 results due to some alleged malpractices in some of the Computer Based Centres (CBT) where exams were held.

By Cassie Chambers Competition causes exam boards to fight to reach the bottom first, a government committee said today.

The resolution up for discussion in Comsewogue says the board «will seriously consider not administering the New York State standardized ELA and math exams in grades 3 - 8, and the science exam in grades 4 and 8,» citing disagreement with state funding and the linkage of teacher evaluations to student test scores.

New York State United Teachers Executive Board Member Don Carlisto said that educators were weary of the plan in part because of how students may be marked should they choose to opt out of exams.

Board of Regents chancellor Merryl Tisch and education commissioner John King have opposed delaying implementation of the standards, but King has said one change state officials are considering is pushing back when students would need to pass Common Core - aligned Regents exam for graduation.

Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls School in Hackney said that the system of censoring exam questions has to date has never posed a problem with the Examination Boards.

If he is kept out for 90 days, as the executive order calls for, Fadlalla said he will fall behind in his residency and may not be able to graduate on time, delaying his ability to take his board certification exams.

She says she devoured a standard toxicology textbook and then took a board exam offered by the American Board of Toxicoboard exam offered by the American Board of ToxicoBoard of Toxicology.

Ofqual said in a statement: «We will consider with the exam boards how provisions for students who are unable to sit their exams when planned, or who take their exams but whose performance might be affected, will be applied.

Morgan said: «Ofqual are working with the exam boards to make sure that all of the specifications are ready.

Lebus said the effective nationalisation of the exam boards «sounds like a rather improbably Corbyn-esque solution for a Conservative government to want to implement».

Michael Turner, director general of the Joint Council for Qualifications, which represents exam boards, responded to Wilshaw's comments saying that multiple exam boards offer diversity and encourage innovation.

A spokesman for the Department for Education said: «We recognise the need to ensure that the exam system operates effectively, which is why we are considering long - term reforms to the exam board system.

«There are some community languages which exam boards have said they need to discontinue at GCSE or A level, which is why we are now taking action and working with them and Ofqual to determine how these qualifications can continue.

So far, over 400 of the nation's colleges and universities have said they will require an admissions exam that requires a writing test such as the one in the SAT, according to the College Board, which sponsors the test.

It also said it will require a resit opportunity in all GCSE sciences and additional science qualifications, but that resit opportunities in any other subject would not be required and would be left to the discretion of the exam boards.

It was deemed so serious a problem that Ofqual said it would be impossible for exam boards to ensure that grades awarded would fairly reflect ability.

Mark Dawe, chief executive of OCR, said: «The shortage of examiners is a system - wide problem which has affected all exam boards in recent years.

Ofqual said that the decision was made after analysing more than 2,500 responses to its consultation, which was launched given evidence that some of this year's tasks had been posted to online forums and collaborative programming sites, contrary to exam board rules.

Ofqual says that students must still complete a task set by their respective exam board, but this will not be formally marked and students» grades will be based on their exam performance alone.

Hague continued to say that exam boards already have a process in place for transgender students who transition after sitting exams, and want to change the information on their certificate in line with their new identity.

Sally Collier, Ofqual's chief regulator, said: «Exam boards must absolutely correct marking errors, and do it quickly.

The Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ), which represents UK exam boards, said that extra time is approved only for students who need it.

Exam board AQA, the only announced its decision to drop the subject in October, saying it was struggling to recruit «sufficient experienced examiners» to mark and award specialist topics.

Collier said: «We've had a look at marking consistency metrics across all of the exam boards and the level of consistency in that marking was very similar to last year.

Michael Turner, director general of the Joint Council for Qualifications, which represents the exam boards, said: «It's disappointing that some organisations have decided to undermine the tens of thousands of teachers who, each year, mark exam papers to a world - class standard.

Exam board AQA sent a letter to teachers, saying it was struggling to recruit «sufficient experienced examiners» to mark and award specialist topics.

The news comes after exam board OCR said it would stop providing GCSEs and A-levels in French, Spanish and German.