England's largest exam board has been forced to make its science GCSE easier because it was too difficult for pupils to get a good pass.
The Assessment and Qualifications Alliance said it had lowered the mark needed to achieve a grade C in the exam 'under protest'.
It had reluctantly agreed to a request from England's new qualifications regulator, Ofqual, to bring it into line with the level set by rival exam boards.
But it has now emerged that in early August, England's three exam boards asked Ofqual to adjudicate after they failed to reach agreement on setting comparable grade boundaries. The Times Educational Supplement claims that rival board Edexcel awarded C grades in a paper for one of its new science courses to pupils scoring only 20 per cent.
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This would be the same Edexcel that is part of the Pearson group Which has Ed Vaizey MP as one of its Directors !!
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