Students will be given more than 1.5 million wrong GCSE, AS and A level grades this summer. Here are some potential solutions...

Students will be given more than 1.5 million wrong GCSE, AS and A level grades this summer. Here are some potential solutions. Which do you prefer?
The results of this year’s school exams will be announced in a few weeks’ time. But as recently reported in the TES, Times and Telegraph, different examiners can legitimately give the same script different marks. As a consequence, of the more than 6 million grades to be awarded this August, over 1.5 million – that’s about 1 in 4 – will be wrong. But no one knows which specific grades, and to which specific candidates; nor does the appeals process right these wrongs. To me, this is a ‘bad thing’. I believe that all grades should be fully reliable. More...