In England, every year, more than a million high school students take GCSE (age 16), AS (age 17) and A level (age 18) exams. The grades those students are awarded are important. Good grades open doors. Poor grades slam them shut. So it's vital that those grades are reliable, and can be trusted. The truth, however, is that about 1 grade in every 4 is wrong. Without any right of appeal. That means that of the approximately 6 million grades awarded each summer, about 1.5 million

Over the last few weeks, I've been working on a document that tells the full story about grade (un)reliability, including * why grade...

On 27th November 2018, Ofqual published some important measures of the reliability of GCSE and A level examinations in 14 subjects -...

Over the last several years, Ofqual, the regulator of school examinations in England and Wales, has been conducting an extensive research...

Grade misallocations real... ​ ​My blog How reliable are GCSE and A level grades? featured a chart, published by the exam regulator...