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Article: No spelling corrections, no red crosses, and no failures...the scandalous fraud of A-levels today; A former woman head teacher, with 30 years' experience, exposes how exam marking has now become so warped by political correctness and legal threats that results are virtually meaningless.
- Article from:
- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 7, 2002
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High standards in English are, in my opinion, the finest passport to success at university and beyond. So it was a great shock to return to marking exam papers after a break of 20 years.
I went to a meeting for new markers of the A2 English Literature exam. A2, or Advanced GCE, is the equivalent of the second year of what used to be called A-levels.
Ostensibly to train examiners, the purpose of the meeting was far more insidious - to warn us to not talk about our work to outsiders. We were then given photocopies of papers already marked by team leaders. I could not believe how high the marks were.
One essay scarcely began to answer the question. ...