Petition Amalgamate all examination boards in the UK into one Government regulated board

-Inaccurate marking (many re-marks go up)
-Schools play game of "picking easiest board" to improve results
-Over-burdened markers leads to poor quality
-Ambiguity of papers/questions
-Difficulty/Simplicity of papers

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The National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE) has identified significant issues with quality of A-level marking, including, "a crisis in confidence" with exam boards.

A new book by University of Cambridge professors has sharply criticized England’s exam boards system as being “bizarre” and “untenable”.

Mick Waters, former Director of Curriculum at the Qualifications and Curriculum Agency, who says that exam boards are “diseased” and “almost corrupt”.

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Date closed 10 December 2016
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