With the recent news that AQA is thinking about assessing girls by their coursework and boys by their performance in exams, it is interesting to think about what your own preferences might have been when you were at school.
As a man, it is suggested that I would have excelled if I was assessed predominantly by [...]

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AQA, one of the largest exam boards in Britain, is reportedly looking into the possibility of tailoring its assessments in order to play to the different strengths exhibited by children of different genders according to national trends.
The idea is that boys would be given the chance to take part in an increased number of seated [...]

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With hundreds of thousands of teenagers preparing to sit their first part A-levels this week, lots of them have been prevented from doing so because of the weather. And they will have to apply for special consideration in the May/June exams, they won’t just get it.
It’s been over a decade since my exams, and I [...]

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