Ofqual says it might consider "pulling" certain exam papers or questions in up-coming exams.
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More important, the days when bosses could mark their own exam papers are gone.
Exam boards which make mistakes on exam papers could face fines in the future.
But what if someone at a school simply orders more exam papers than are required?
He mobilized a team of 200 university professors and students to check exam papers against official computerized scores.
It says no other exam papers are missing and it is reviewing procedures to ensure it cannot happen again.
In Wales, exam papers were regraded, but the dispute has continued in England.
The paper was made up of parts of previous O-level and GCSE exam papers from the 1960s to the 2000s.
As the story goes, Tokien was grading a pile of exam papers.
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He said the Tories' proposal was a positive idea, but providing exam papers on their own would not answer critics of exam standards.
The 58-year-old England and West Ham great likened the current regulatory system to being "a bit like marking your own exam papers at school".
"We heard about one case in Asia where exam papers were stolen from customs and were broadcast on a national radio station, " said Dr McLone.
Heads want to have the disputed exam papers regraded - and have rejected the offer that pupils should be able to retake the exam in November.
With graduations threatened, universities such as Cambridge and Keele have already set in motion "emergency measures" - such as using exam papers from other sources - the AUT said.
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Barry Houlihan, an archivist at the university, said they date back to the mid 1950s when Tolkien set exam papers in English Literature for the Galway students.
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Archbishop Lanfranc school said that the teacher had had responsibility for organising some language exams and had limited access to exam papers kept locked in a secure place.
The AUT is also boycotting the setting of exam papers.
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This summer's English GCSEs were a new modular qualification, with pupils sitting written exam papers and controlled assessment, and schools decided when pupils submitted that assessment work and sat exams.
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Archbishop Lanfranc school says the teacher had responsibility for organising some language exams taken by external candidates, so had limited access to exam papers kept locked in a secure place.
But further complicating the dispute, the Welsh government has ordered a regrading for its own pupils - many of whom were taking the same exam papers as their English counterparts.
There were about a dozen errors in this year's exam papers taken by pupils in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, ranging from questions which were impossible to answer to printing errors.
But random checks by inspectors were introduced after claims that, in last year's national tests, some teachers opened the envelopes containing the exam papers early and coached their pupils through the questions.
But head teachers have challenged Ofqual to produce evidence - and had raised the question as to whether the regulator's investigations had ever looked at actual exam papers with evidence of such over-marking.
The police had responded to a tip-off from the Edexcel exam board that GCSE pupils at the college were being coached using the real exam papers they were due to sit the next day.
The QCA will be scrutinising exam papers and candidates' scripts this year more than ever in the effort to try to ensure that standards are maintained - but says it does not intervene with the exam boards to tell them where to fix the boundaries between grades.
Many universities are already involved with the exam boards that set papers, sitting on advisory panels for example.
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It has served court papers on exam boards AQA and Edexcel, detailing the case for the exams to be regraded.
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