The problem wasn’t the physical sitting of the exams, it was the huge disruption in the preparation for them and the disparity in how that would affect students from different sections of society. If… (View Post)

In hindsight it’s a shame that the government decided this was the year to crack down on unconditional offers. (View Post)

Using numbers where the higher the number the better (go back far enough and O-levels had 1 as the top grade) allows for the addition of grade 10 and even the possibility of going all the way to 11 i… (View Post)

And some went up three! (View Post)

You predict what you think someone ought to get. In a normal year some will foul up: I remember an A* student coming out of an exam in tears because he realised with two minutes to go that he had not… (View Post)