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Next entry: Tougher guidelines
Previous entry: Megan McArdle on the menace of imposed scaling
Thursday May 15 2008

And maybe very big problems.  Here.  Says he: “It is difficult to understate how bad this could be.” Shouldn’t that be “overstate”?

More to the central point is this comment on the piece, from “ACM”:

As a maths teacher, I am more concerned about the Maths GCSE - the first exam is on Monday.

This year, the scripts are being scanned and marked on-screen. An examiner has told me that anything outside a certain box on each page will not be scanned, and so will not be marked. This could severely affect students’ results if they do their working out outside this box.

When my school contacted Edexcel, they were unable to clarify whether this was information was accurate or not.

Next Monday.  Yikes.