Discussion Of The Week: Examination Board
An examination board is an organization that sets examinations and is responsible for marking them and distributing results. As such, examination boards have the power to award qualifications to students (such as SAT scores). Most exam boards are run as not-for-profit organizations.
Examination boards in UK: CIE, AQA, CCEA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC!
So in United Kingdom (and maybe in some other countries) student sit different exam papers depending on what exam board their school has chosen them to sit.
Discussion Questions
Do you think that everyone should sit the same exam? why?
Should we be given the right to choose the examination board? Why?
Thamizhan
The league tables and stuff like that is quite stupid if you ask me! I don't believe in it because all schools are different. They come up with league tables by subject and compare the whole of the country's candidates I suppose? 😕 I am not sure 😆
Do you think that everyone should sit the same exam? why?
Yea i think that ever1 shud coz den itz only fair....coz sum ppl mite do easy questions n sum mite do harder paper and itz not fair as the grades won't be fair
Should we be given the right to choose the examination board? Why?
Yea....coz it dependz on the person on which exam board that they wud prefer not what the school decided for dem!