Missing the Mark av Dennis Sherwood

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<B>UNCOVERED: 1 in 4 EXAM GRADES IS WRONG<BR/><BR/>'An important contribution to our thinking.’</B>– Sixth Form Colleges Association<BR/><B>'An uncomfortable but important read.’</B>– Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference<BR/><B>'Everyone in UK education should reflect upon the problems identified in this powerful book'</B>– Higher Education Policy Institute<BR/><BR/> Every summer one million GCSE and A-Level candidates receive results that define their school years and set them up for their life. But those results are gravely unreliable.<BR/><BR/> In fact, about one grade in four in England is WRONG. That is 1.5 million grades every year.<BR/><BR/> An A-Level grade B might have been an A, or even a C, had a different examiner marked the script. Similarly, a GCSE grade 7 might have received a grade 8 or a 6.<BR/><BR/> For a decade, young people and their friends and families have been unable to grasp the full e