The committee's report said it agreed with many of the plans to overhaul GCSEs - such as moving exams to the end of a course and limiting the culture of excessive resits.
Other changes to the English system will remain, including a move towards exams at the end of two years of study instead of pupils picking up points which count towards their final grade through modular exams.
Waiting rooms are institutional-feeling and the bustling hallways are cramped with dozens of staff members, who sidestep one another while moving between exam rooms.
The film, an adaptation of Don DeLillo's 2003 novel set mostly in Packer's limousine, concerns a financial whiz-kid who is either having sex, having a finger inserted into his bottom (an on-the-move prostate exam), engaging in lengthy overblown monologues, losing vast sums of money, dodging an assassin, seeking a haircut, or all of the above.
One suggestion is to move away from exams at 16 towards the International Baccalaureate learner profile.
In a parallel move, Ofqual, the exams regulator, has launched a consultation on the regulatory aspects of the changes.
"The Confederation of British (CBI) Industry have argued consistently that the move towards timed exams at GCSE and A-level is entirely in the wrong direction.
Further changes, such as speaking and listening assessments no longer counting towards a student's overall GCSE English grade and a move towards more exams and less coursework in the subject, could also have an impact.
A spokesman for the Department for Education (DfE) acknowledged that removing speaking and listening from English may have contributed to the lower pass rate, but he said this was a move Ofqual, the exams regulator, favoured because speaking and listening marking was inconsistent.
If other regions - like the Ormiston Victory Academy - slip back as they move into harder exams, the extent to which London is doing better, and the extent to which it just has better pupils, will be easier to measure.
