Exam results season brings questions for the Government on Exams

Exam results season brings questions for the Government on Exams

As we draw into exam results season, there is quite a lot of press around the challenges of both administrating exams along with the pressures it puts on teenagers by the Government imposed exams timetable.

Here at the Exam House we believe that fewer exams are one way of improving exams in the UK. We believe that computer based exams are now at the point where if they are good enough for professional qualifications, then they are good enough for GCSE and A levels.

If the Covid pandemic has taught us anything, is the stress of exams, the cliff that it brings doesn’t have to exist to provide quality assessment.

National exams being cancelled will give us a big experiment to see if the academic attainment of pupils have been radically affected. Or, more likely the pupils have actually found ways to learn. Although the assessments have been cancelled the learning has not.

Mental health and anxiety in teenagers has development into its own pandemic. With the rise of the pressures of social media.

When this giant experiment is over, the result will be fascinating and it will be the best chance we have to radically improve the exam process.

As this article is being written, schools are threatening not to go back. Although the exam blog was under the impression that it is a legal requirement that schools to open. It clearly isnt they case. They, mostly the unions, have found a way for schools to stay closed. This will play into the hands of those who believe in fewer exams for pupils. The exam house strongly believes in having few exams for candidates throughout school. We would go to say we should scrap GCSEs all together. A podcast discussing this point.

IF they unions knew that more threats will increase the likelihood of exams being taken away from schools and exam boards. I suspect they would be opening schools much quicker than they currently are.