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GCSE and level 1 and 2 results 2025 at a glance 

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GCSE and level 1 and 2 results 2025 at a glance 

More than 5.6 million GCSE results have been issued to students in England today, along with more than 368,000 results for level 1 and 2 vocational and technical qualifications taken alongside them.  These results enable young people to progress to …

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GCSE, AS and A level marking reviews and appeals: 10 things you need to know

Posted by: Julie Swan, Posted on: 3 June 2016 - Categories: A levels and GCSEs

...students have always had the opportunity to ask their exam board to review their marks directly. For other students, currently requests must be made by a student’s school or college....

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Some thoughts on comparable outcomes

Posted by: chrisshadforth, Posted on: 3 June 2016 - Categories: A levels and GCSEs

This week’s TES (3 June 2016) carries an article regarding comparable outcomes. It includes part of a quote that we provided to TES from one of our experts. The full quote that was provided can be seen below. You might …

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GCSE, AS and A level reform: accreditation enters its third phase

Posted by: Julie Swan, Posted on: 19 May 2016 - Categories: A levels and GCSEs

...chemistry, computer science, economics, English language, English language and literature, English literature, history, physics, psychology and sociology are already being taught. We are also currently undertaking a review of the...

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Native speakers and A level modern foreign languages: can you help?

Posted by: Rachel Taylor, Posted on: 9 May 2016 - Categories: A levels and GCSEs

...Italian and Russian this summer. Currently, this information is not readily available at the national level so if we can find out the numbers it will be a great starting...

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Regulating apprenticeship end-point assessments

Posted by: Jeremy Benson, Posted on: 15 April 2016 - Categories: Vocational and technical qualifications
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qmefo3cvJI

...(EPAs), and our role in assuring the standards of these within the new reformed apprenticeships. The Trailblazers, which are responsible for developing the standards for the new apprenticeships, will need...

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HMC’s numbers simply don’t add up

Posted by: chrisshadforth, Posted on: 18 March 2016 - Categories: A levels and GCSEs

Our full consultation and student survey covering proposals to change the review and appeals system for GCSEs, AS and A levels closed on Friday 11 March. Ofqual's Associate Director of Communications, Chris Shadforth, takes a closer look at some of …

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Reflections on our 'review of marking' consultation - facts and figures

Posted by: Phil Beach, Posted on: 11 March 2016 - Categories: A levels and GCSEs

...below illustrates this using data for GCSE enquiries in 2014. Source: AQA There are a number of reasons why review requests may follow this pattern. Among these, the current enquiries...

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Inter-subject comparability: continuing the debate

Posted by: Phil Beach, Posted on: 12 February 2016 - Categories: A levels and GCSEs

...TES today that we are not about to make any immediate changes in this area; the conference was purely an initial conversation and an opportunity to hear a number of...

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Update on the National Reference Test

Posted by: Tim Leslie, Posted on: 10 February 2016 - Categories: A levels and GCSEs

...will encourage students to make their best effort in answering the questions. The questions that we use in the test have to remain confidential because we will use them again...

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We all love a good story...

Posted by: Barry Cooke, Posted on: 5 February 2016 - Categories: Other

This week (30 Jan - 6 Feb) is National Storytelling Week so here at Ofqual we thought we’d join in and talk about some of our favourite stories. We have...

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