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What's the Best Book to Revise AQA GCSE Language Exam Higher? Advice Straight from a Senior Examiner

Melanie Kendry | Posted 21.05.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Melanie Kendry

The AQA GCSE has changed, and now, so has the textbook. Brand new for this year, 2013 students have the competitive edge with this brilliant book, full of worked examples, and tips straight from senior examiners on how to raise your grade in the Language Exam.

Strip Money-Hungry Exam Boards Of Right To Set Tests, Urge MPs

PA | Posted 03.07.2012 | UK Universities & Education

MPs have called for reforms to remove "perverse incentives" for students to take dumbed-down exams at school. Exam boards competing to attract busi...

Pupils Disqualified After Confused Teachers Allow Textbooks Into Exam

The Huffington Post UK | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 27.06.2012 | UK Universities & Education

Pupils have been disqualified from an exam after blundering teachers wrongly told the children they were allowed to use text books. The high-achiev...

High A-level And GCSE Grades Inflated By Exam Paper Mistakes

PA | Posted 26.12.2011 | UK Universities & Education

The number of teenagers receiving extra marks in their A-levels and GCSEs rose this summer, fuelled by the mistakes in exam papers, figures show. A...

Exam Board To Favour Students From Poorer Backgrounds

PA | Posted 26.11.2011 | UK Universities & Education

A-level students who attend poorly-performing schools should be given extra credit by universities, a report said. The paper for one ...

Dumbing Down English Literature

Clare Sarson | Posted 26.11.2011 | UK Universities & Education
Clare Sarson

I teach English Literature A Level. My Year 13 students this year are tackling a variety of texts including Enduring Love by Ian McEwan, Hamlet and an anthology of poetry that includes work from Petrarch to Duffy, Browning to Angelou.