Following an outcry, Mr Andrews - who regulates exams in Wales - decided to order a regrade of thousands of papers set by the Cardiff-based exam board WJEC.
The Cardiff-based exam board initially refused to implement the regrading and the minister was eventually forced to use his legal powers to issue a direction ordering them to carry it out.
Cambridge, for example, simply rejects, reasonably, the benchmark based on exam grades (which equates a handful of good results with many indifferent ones).
Last year, Ray Cross, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin Colleges, told Inside Higher Ed that he expects some students will simply take a free MOOC (massive online open course) offered by another school and then opt to write their competency exam based on the what they learned therein or knowledge they acquired independently.
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The coroner will wait until a full report based on the toxicology exam findings is available in six to eight weeks, Miller said.
He seems to assume that the status distinctions of the Indian Civil Service (an exam-based meritocracy) somehow sprang full-grown from the habit of rewarding Whig landowners with earldoms.
There was also strong opposition to a number of other proposals, including whole-school performance bonuses based on test and exam results (76% disagreed with this) and the "fast-tracking" of bright graduates onto higher salaries (54% were opposed).
Mr Gething said he believed exam reforms were based on "ideology" in England and changes in Wales should be based on evidence and the needs of learners.
Creating an exam-lite system based largely on teachers' assessments will be a huge and costly task.
Under the deal, at least 20% of a teacher's overall score would in many cases be based on how much progress students make on a state standardized exam.
As an example, to earn the most popular Cisco certification, called Cisco Certified Network Associate, or CCNA, a worker must take an exam, most likely administered by Pearson, the British-based publishing and education company.
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On Wednesday, lawyers for the exam boards told the court they had raised the mark needed for a GCSE English C grade based on their judgement of the quality of the work.
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