Duncan is absolutely right
Hundreds of schools will now have to spend valuable time checking with students as to whether they were affected by the problem, checking which papers were faulty and the extent to which students had to choose another question which might have been less suited to their individual preparation
The mistake came in the third paper of the afternoon - so many students were already tired and therefore more susceptible to ignoring the error anyway
Geoff
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From: Duncan Williamson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tue 28/05/2002 23:02
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Subject: Re: Making allowances
I think I've said this before but I am shocked at how these mistakes
creep through. Surely the exam setting and moderating process should
trap all of these errors.
In professional accounting exams, for example, someone sets an exam
and then a small army of already qualified accountants will sit the
draft exam under exam conditions to check for ANY errors and
inconsistencies and so on. They report back any problems ...
Even in the simplest of situations, at least two people ought to be
reading and working through all exam papers.
To answer the question that David posed, it's clear that proper
investigations ought to be taking place now that includes cavassing
the candidates themselves to ascertain the real impact of these
inexcusable mistakes. I would even suggest that people ought to
resign, too.
Duncan Williamson
> Reading here:
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/education/newsid_2013000/2013453.stm
>
> we see more mistakes on an exam paper.
>
> When an exam board says they will 'make allowances'
> what does this actually mean? Some people may have
> wasted 1 minute, others 10 minutes, others 15 minutes
> on a question that did not make sense. So how does a
> board actually 'make allowances'.
>
> As this is a general question, i.e. not specific to
> Edxcel etc, does anyone here know what 'making
> allowances' actually entail?
>
> Many thanks
>
>
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