Sentences with phrase «exam marking system»

Last week, private school head teachers launched a scathing attack on the exam marking system, accusing it of too often delivering «frankly unbelievable marks or grades».

Exams manager Paula Wood says confidence is at an all - time low in the exam marking system, but will Ofqual's recent moderation announcements change that?

Not exact matches

The Chinese national educational system has won high praise as an efficient system with national standards, a narrow curriculum, a high - stakes test (the college entrance exam), and a clearly defined set of gateways to mark students» transitions from one stage to another.

Under the new system, schools are charged # 10 for a clerical check to see if marks were added up correctly and # 29.75 for a marking review, but the charges only apply if there is no change to the exam grade.

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.

NAHT are working with the exam boards and other professional associations to improve and expand marking capacity in the system.»

Exam boards and the marking system are checked and include moderation to ensure all papers are marked to the same standard, but if you do not feel your grades are right, speak to your school about options for re-marks.

Shoddy marking standards mean that hundreds of teenagers are wrongly missing out on places at their first - choice universities and eroding public confidence in Britain's exam system, the leader of Britain's top independent schools will warn.

In response, a spokeswoman for the exam regulator Ofqual said: «We are ourselves looking closely at the quality of marking in the exam system.

Mr Andrews later said he believed the exam system was being «politicised» in England - and that exam boards had been pressured to mark more harshly.

And the HMC - representing 250 of some of the most famous independent schools - has launched its own broadside against the exams system, in a report that says there are deep - rooted problems with unreliable, unfair and inaccurate marking.

Under proposed reforms to the system by which schools can challenge results, set out recently by the exams regulator Ofqual, exam boards will eventually have to accept requests from schools for access to marked GCSE papers, as they already currently do for A levels, but it is not yet know when this will be implemented.

«These exams are vital to the life chances of young people and the marking system has to be improved.

This seems to be a definite move towards a clearer and more open system, with the exam boards held accountable for inaccurate marking and having to explain any changes.

The regulator has also decided not to introduce a «red alert» system to try and catch erroneous marks before they are released to students, and says it has no power to ask exam boards to lower the price of marking appeals in deprived areas.

If there is any doubt about the marking or results then our exam system is in danger of falling into disrepute.»

Mr King, head teacher of Leicester Grammar School, says marking remains a «cottage industry» that is unable to cope with the scale and stresses of the modern exam system.