Petition Nationalise GCSEs and GCE A and AS Level Exam Boards in England

Currently, there are many competing exam boards. They are forced to undercut each other to incentivise schools to use them, and often under-pay their workers to increase profits for shareholders, leading to sloppy errors in examination paper writing, poor quality marking, and easy exams.

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A nationalised exam board would solve this: with the profit motive removed, exam-writers would be paid enough to care about the accuracy of their answers (https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jul/02/ofqual-record-fine-ocr-exam-board-error-english-paper-romeo-juliet). Illogical moderation strategies for coursework can be unfair to a number of students.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/secondaryeducation/8943763/Exam-boards-investigation-how-the-exam-boards-compete-to-be-easier.html

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Date closed 18 October 2019
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