Not exact matches
Earlier this
summer it was
reported that Dennis Norfleet had been kicked off the football team for an academic issue, which turned out to be him skipping
exams.
Numbers for 2017 test attendance will not be released until the
summer, but Newsday already is
reporting that about half of Long Island students boycotted the English
exams given in late March.
Numbers for attendance at the 2017 tests will not be released until the
summer, but already Newsday is
reporting that around half of Long Island students boycotted the English
exams given in late March.
Ofqual's
report into events at the
exam board last
summer which almost led to them failing to release A level results on time gives us an insight into what went wrong.
Exam boards were accused of creating a «massive muddle» this
summer over students appealing against their GCSE results, following revelations in an official
report by Ofqual.
The
report gives an overview of the 2016
summer exam series, during which roughly 15.4 million papers were completed by around 1.9 million pupils over seven weeks.
Ofqual's
report on the 2016
summer exams shows the number of
reported assessment material errors rose from 11 in 2015 to 37 this year.
In its final
report on the controversy over this
summer's GCSE English
exam, Ofqual says external examiners had to raise grade boundaries as a result.
Exam board Edexcel said: «Although the
report confirms that grades issued in the
summer were fair, we sympathise with the disappointment many are feeling.»
The
report pointed to the controversy of last
summer's English GCSE results as an example of the «turbulence» that could be caused by changes to the
exam system.