Sentence examples for exam structure from inspiring English sources

If creative kids are offered an exam structure seen to be below other GSCE subjects then they are being structurally reprimanded and punished for being inventive and creative.

The chief regulator, Glenys Stacey, said critics who claimed that practical lab work would be downgraded as a result of the changes "could not be further from the truth", arguing that the reformed exam structure would expand the range of practical work that pupils could undertake and had won strong backing from science teachers.

DfE officials likened the new exam structure to the O-level format – which was replaced by GCSEs in the late 1980s but a version of which is still used in Singapore – which had a heavier emphasis on essay-based exam questions.

Some say that the system will allow higher grades, such as 9 and 10, to be added in the future, and so avoid the A to A* patch, but Ofqual says it is to indicate a break with the previous exam structure.

Labour's shadow education secretary, Tristram Hunt, has indicated that the only changes he would make to the exam structure his party would inherit from the Coalition if elected would be to restore the link between AS-levels (traditionally taken at the end of the first year of the sixth form) and A-levels.

The exam structure did not change with a high level of correlation year to year in exam questions, nor were there any changes in the laboratory sections or syllabus pertinent to how students would be graded in the course.

A-level results can, in fact, be a poor guide to ability, telling us more about the confused family and social pressures that an individual has survived or their resistance to mechanical exam structures.

By contrast, Scotland's institutional landscape was well established by the time of political union with England.These institutions schools and universities with their own curriculum and exam structures, a legal system with its own codes and rules, a church independent of the state, a distinctive system of local government were left untouched by the union.

This random effect captures the variation in performance between classes that is not related to our predictor variables and allows us to compare outcomes across different class and exam structures.

In the UK, and countries based on its process, there is a hybrid university-exam structure.

That seemed like a more philosophical subject to me that would encourage a creative approach to music rather than the inevitable grade-exam structure that would come with instrumental teaching.