Exams in Scotland cancelled
Exams in Scotland cancelled
Exams in Scotland are cancelled and replaced by coursework and teacher assessments in 2021.
The exams taken by 16-year-old pupils - the same as GSCEs - have been scrapped by the Scottish government.
The Scottish Government said all exams during the continuing coronavirus pandemic was "too big a risk".
Higher and Advanced Higher exams - more like A-levels - will go ahead as usual - but will start on 13 May, two weeks later than planned.
This will lead to a Pick your own grade as happened in 2020.
Schools are notoriously bad at using course work as a guide. While course work is a slow version of hell and gives bias to those who format and collaborate well. Rather than those who get a grips of their subject. Course work to produce GCSE or A level grade is a slow motion hell for a lot of pupils. While not achieving the exam exercise of testing the candidate in their full understanding of the subject.
The move comes as restrictions were brought in Scotland because to a big rise in new coronavirus cases - schools are expected to stay open but students have been warned by the government that they will face further disruption.
Just another example of how having so little choice of taking exams in any other way apart from the exam board formula has meant that exams have to cancelled. If there were computer based exams at the point of choosing by the candidate this would not be an issue.