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10:55:37 on Mon, 28 Apr 2014, "Baines, Jonathan"
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>As we all know, para 9 of Sch 7 to DPA 98 exempts examination scripts
>from subject access rights. A few of us have been having a twitter
>conversation about why that exemption exists. The only answer we?re
>coming up with is that from disclosures of exam scripts one could
>accurately remember/infer the exam question, and some examining bodies
>reuse/recycle their questions.
Don't they publish the "past papers" for public exams any more. When I
was at school we had piles of old A-level which were used for setting
homework, and I'm petty sure the University published past Tripos papers
too.
>Brief searches of Hansard haven?t come up with much ? does anyone have
>any other knowledge/theories? It?s always struck me as a bit unfair and
>arbitrary
I've always understood it's to keep any comments made by an examiner
private (to the examiner/board) and to preserve the anonymity of the
examiner doing the marking.
--
Roland Perry
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