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A spokesman for the DfE said: "It is completely unacceptable for students to be adversely affected as a result of any marking errors or delays.
Sally Collier, Ofqual's chief regulator, said exam boards would continue to correct marking errors promptly but said the revised system would result in "a new era in fairness for all students, teachers and schools".
The new guidelines on marking errors say marks should only be changed on review where the original mark "could not reasonably have been given" or where markers have "exercised their academic judgment in an unreasonable way".
Ofqual said: "We also plan to overhaul the inquiries about results system in future, so that it can better distinguish between marking errors and differences of opinion between equally skilled professionals, particularly in those subjects where more subjective judgments of the quality of student work are necessary.
For example, he suggested, a candidate might score 60% plus or minus 15% for marking errors.
For the spherical lens the difference between exact and simulated is least because only the surgically induced astigmatism variable matters in this case – lens rotation and marking errors are of no consequence with a spherical lens.
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Exam boards are now allowed to change a mark only if there has been a clear marking error.
In other words, the grade will only change if there is a clear marking error rather than a difference of interpretation.
From this summer, however, examiners are being told to only change a mark if there is a clear marking error rather than simply a difference of interpretation, which is likely to result in substantially fewer successful challenges.
A novel above ground marking algorithm based on function fitting is proposed to reduce marking error of above ground markers (AGMs).
A table of 2,000 random values of surgically induced astigmatism, lens marking error and lens rotation data were created from the simulation data above.
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