AQA Exam Chaos and A Loss of Trust
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In my view the AQA is suffering from a deep loss of confidence and trust among many schools and colleges. This exam blunder doesn’t help and I have heard from numerous colleagues about some major inconsistencies in their marking of AS and A2 economics papers this summer - with the AQA stubbornly kicking their heels in when examples of narrow, weak and irregular marking have been flagged up. Indeed several colleagues have found that some student papers have not been marked at all.
It is a shame that a fundamentally decent and interesting syllabus is undermined and ultimately ruined by such poor marking.
As Anthony Seldon noted in a recent essay in the Times, the exam boards may actually have a perverse incentive to allow their marking to be unreliable - every remark generates extra revenue for them. And they are now charging vast sums for INSET days where teachers are lectured to by AQA retainers.
The exam boards in this country are in an appalling mess - they provide an expensive but hugely flawed service to schools and colleges across the country.
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