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Perhaps the weirdest thing, as my two boys enter the last few years of schooling, is the absence of external exams.
English pupils are probably more tested than any others, enduring external exams at ages seven, 11, 14, 16, 17 and 18.
One teacher's remark – "I think Steiner education offers the best student-focused environment where the pressure of external exams and the like are forgone in favour of real teaching and learning" – is set against another message.
And the pattern of relentless testing continues in secondary school, with external exams at 14, 16, 17 and 18.The common theme across the age range, says Alan Smithers, an educationalist at Buckingham University, is the multiple uses to which the government wants to put exams.
Schools in Finland are not monitored very closely and pupils do not sit external exams until they are 19.
It was expected that online examination technology would bring considerable cost savings in the hosting of external exams, with efficiencies in costs associated with payment of invigilators, venue hire and courier services, as well as the costs of printing exam papers.
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The Alberta Medical Examiner has done or will do an autopsy or external exam; the report on that examination is "granted to an adult next of kin, to anyone who has written authorization from a next of kin, or to anyone who the Chief Medical Examiner finds to be an interested party".
Pupils, motility, confrontational visual fields, and external exam were within normal limits bilaterally.
External exam demonstrated significant upper and lower lid edema and erythema, ptosis, and moderate proptosis.
External exam was notable for minimal left-sided ptosis; the remainder of slit lamp exam was normal.
External exam of the left eye revealed significant edema and ecchymosis of the upper and lower eyelids.
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