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Tag: GCSE
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The A-level results came out on August 13th. In the absence of exams, they were estimated from several data sources using a fairly intelligent algorithm. Results were well up on last year, yet there were such howls of anguish that the government was forced into a humiliating policy U-turn four days later. What on earth…
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This guest post is by Jez Thompson, Strategic Lead IT at The Open Academy in Norwich Jez blagged a free trial of our J276 OCR Computer Science Practice Exams in return for a promise to write up his experience. After reading How we cracked the auto-marking of GCSE short-text responses I asked Yacapaca for…
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I thought you might enjoy some of answers your student have been giving to the short-text questions in our J276 GCSE Practice Exam module. Actually, I don’t know whose students these are. The students’ responses are completely anonymised when we see them. As the first results to each question come in, we analyse the performance of…
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The mainstay of most GCSE exams is the short-text question. For our new GCSE Practice Exams, we have developed a free-text marking engine that is robust enough to deal with real GCSE questions and, more importantly, real students. That system is now
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Next January, we intend to launch a new series of professionally written and edited online practice GCSE exams, entirely auto-marked. The aim will be to raise GCSE results by at least one grade level for …
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