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anonymous review boards of the bureaucracy led to mistakes, full of papers. The tests must have a single author, responsible

My students are looking very stressed these days. Not just sit their model, but were seated "modular" exams and had to endure the nightmare of the struggle against exam papers strewn with errors. In one of his examinations there was a question that was impossible - a mistake that the Review Board later apologized for. "I am very angry," one of my students told me. "I spent too much time puzzling over this question!"

They are not alone. Up and down the country, students, teachers and parents are furious over the blunders that creep on our audits with increasing regularity. This week, the AQA, one of the largest examination tables, had to apologize after it prints an issue that had been in a previous article of mathematics, more than 30,000 students took the test in schools and 567 colleges. But was not the only plank redness AQA. OCR had to humble himself after errors were found in a Latin GCSE paper and a standard physical examination

After teaching GCSE and A-levels 20 years and was an examiner, not surprising that people errors increasingly entering exams. One factor is the enormous amount of tests that are taken. The testing industry has exploded under the previous Labour government, with a multitude of different tests that introduce staggered hours during the school year.

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