Friday, 10 June 2011

private exam mills are more efficient. right @sarc

The scandals just keep on coming. I don't even have to think.

Why doesn't the government do this stuff which is vital to kids' futures.

Why do they have to farm it out?

Is it because the mills lose papers?
Is it because the mills inflate marks?
Is it because the mills make questions that are unanswerable?
Is it because they take bribes?
Is it because mills leak the papers?

Take you pick

Checkitout: the latest boondogle

..Watchdog warning over exam paper blunders
By Jeff Pachoud | AFP
.. ..Exam boards are being told to carry out out extra checks to avoid further blunders after thousands of students faced exam questions containing mistakes, it emerged on Thursday.

England's exam regulator Ofqual issued the warning as it investigates six errors in this year's A-level and GCSE exam papers.

The latest slip-ups to come to light were in AS-level geography and computing papers set by AQA, one of England's largest exam boards.

In the geography paper a graph showing the velocity of a river was incorrectly labelled as 0.5 rather than 0.05.

AQA apologised and said "no students will be disadvantaged as a result".