I haven't not talked about sport or technology in a while, I've I've had a good rant either, so here is the opportunity for me to kill two birds with one stone.
I recently sat my AS exams in January (some of them). Everything went fine, until I got my History result. I got a low B, which isn't exactly bad, but I was confident that after what I thought was a pretty successful exam I would scrape an A. I get the paper back, and it's exactly as I remembered it: I think I did pretty good.
I give to my teacher (a senior examiner at Edexcel, she writes the bloody books that people up and down the country learn their Edexcel history out of) and she tells me I've been really under marked and that she thought it deserved a high B or a low A. Now, as you can imagine, this really pisses me off. Furthermore, two other people got their papers backed and them as well were drastically under marked.
What the hell is the bloody problem with private exam boards?? It's absolutely ridiculous and a disgrace that England have 4 different exam boards, run FOR PROFIT, who have crap, badly trained examiners correcting scripts. Now, my History was Edexcel, and I don't know about the other boards and how they mark, but it's all for profit.
This means that by definition they will do everything they possibly can to make you retake if you ask for a remark. Any excuse at all they can find for under marking your paper and they will take it. Because they get the money both from retakes and remarks (if it is successfully remarked, they have to pay you back).
England are the only country in the world (as far as I know) who have 4 different private exam boards. All you need to do is copy the model of any European country where there is one board, usually government run, that corrects everything. The education system in England really is a mess, and having screwed up exam boards is a big part of it.
Again, I'm only talking for Edexcel here, but I assume the others are roughly the same, so that's why I generalised it a bit.
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