Sentence examples for making the exams from inspiring English sources

But making the exams tougher will penalise pupils at bad schools and help the independent schools that the government has it in for.

Deputy Prime Minister Beata Szydlo thanked school directors for making the exams possible and urged striking educators to accept the government's offer, which unions have repeatedly rejected.

I have no objections to making the exams harder or tightening up on grade boundaries, but to move the goal posts half way through is truly shocking and deeply unfair on the students.

So we're improving our assessments by raising cut scores, making the exams less predictable, testing more areas and making the tests longer.

Following the expert panels' recommendation of which distractor to discard, mean percentage of correct answers (P-values) would generally increase slightly more compared to the statistical approach, making the exam easier.

Make the exams more rigorous and more reflective of student learning.

The changes are part of the government's drive to make the exams system more rigorous.

It was not until 1996 that the Regents made the exams a condition of high school graduation for everyone.

The school, which serves a mostly poor population, maintained nearly perfect test scores even as the state made the exams harder to pass.

And because states that fail to raise scores over time face serious sanctions, there is little incentive to make the exams difficult, some educators say.

To keep pace with more rigorous standards for high school graduation in many states, the G.E.D. Testing Service has made the exams tougher this year and added so-called open-response questions along with the traditional multiple choice.