In this regard, a study by Maas et al. [4] compared the accuracy of 3-T and 1.5-T scanners to discriminate between T2 and borderline T3 rectal cancers when performing exams on the same group of patients.
This requires writing new exams on the same set of core concepts each time the class is taught.
In October 1999, we asked all participants of a mandatory 5th-year course (non-pharmacology) to sit an additional, formative exam of the same type.
Mark Dawe, chief executive of OCR, said: "We appreciate Ofqual's determination to ensure that all awarding bodies' exams are of the same rigour".
Chief executive of OCR board Mark Dawe said: "We appreciate Ofqual's determination to ensure that all awarding bodies' exams are of the same rigour.
In contrast, the overall decline in the number of exams in the same period was 24 percent.
However, there may be alternative explanations for the reduced time the students spent learning for the latter exam: Firstly, only one subject in the field of Internal Medicine was tested and, secondly, the exam took place at the end of the semester competing with other exams in the same group of students.
Male and female students participating in the study were selected based on the following criteria: (1) age group between 15 and 18 years, (2) going to appear for 10th or 12th standard board exams in the same academic year of the survey, and (3) should be able to read and write Tamil (local language in Tamil Nadu) and English languages.
Research by Tony Gallagher of Queen's University, Belfast, shows that a pupil who attends a grammar school does significantly better in exams than a pupil of the same ability who attends a non-selective school.Yet Mr Gallagher frets that the province has become adept at training kids to pass exams rather than teaching them to think independently.
Some 35% of pupils took two or more exams in the same subject, and 10,000 individuals took four exams in the same subject.
