Sentence examples for exams were set from inspiring English sources

Until the establishment of the General Certificate of Education, exams were set once a year by an external examiner(s) appointed by the governors, who reported in writing on the general proficiency of pupils, as well as the condition of the school.

Instead exams are set and marked by the faculty in Tirana.

He acknowledged that the "teachers are not SUNY faculty" and that exams are set and evaluated locally.

Empire State College, he added "does not have centrally managed exams". Instead exams are set and marked by the faculty in Tirana.

Exams should produce qualifications whose value is easily understood.Mr Woodhead argues that if exams are set or regulated by a government-funded body, political interference is inevitable.

The new GCSEs have been taught in schools since September 2015, and the first new set of exams are set to take place in the summer of 2017.

Although some university boards remain, the lion's share of exams are set by companies whose customers are teachers not admissions tutors.

A Department for Education spokeswoman says: "We will be exploring with Ofqual and awarding organisations [exam boards] how we might use pre-testing to ensure that the standard of exams is set in the right place".

The row over grade inflation in exams is set to resurface this week as experts predict that one in five of the grades handed out in this year's GCSEs will be an A* or A. That compares with fewer than one in 11 in 1987 when the exams were first introduced.

Because of an editing error, an article on Tuesday about efforts by state education officials to determine whether the bar for passing the Algebra I Regents exam was set too high misstated the planned increase in the passing grade for the test.

Glenys Stacey, chief exams regulator, said Ofqual's main role was ensuring that exam standards were set and maintained and this was what they were doing.