Ian, 17, is preparing for his AS-levels, and his top tip is to "do lots of exam questions".
Consider the exam questions that schools posed to 14-year-olds in 1910 and 1990.
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Gareth Pierce, chief executive of WJEC, later told the MPs the information filmed by the Daily Telegraph regarding the "cycle" of exam questions - which topics would be set each year - was already in the public domain.
Ofqual says it might consider "pulling" certain exam papers or questions in up-coming exams.
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You can get a city license by answering correctly 97 of the 150 questions on the Sightseeing Guide Exam, which covers topics like landmarks, subway lines and history.
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Mr Sindall said that many grammar schools already offered "test familiarisation" sessions so that children from poorer families did not turn up at the entrance exam never having encountered those type of questions before.
These questions are not intended as a final exam, but rather as a regular check-in.
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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.
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 when it became known that questions in the Lithuanian-language paper for this year's school-leaving exam were on sale in advance, there was an outcry.
I've advocated we use the polygraph exam to detect unlawful activity or drug use, but there, to my knowledge, are no questions on that that relate specifically to a person's attitude on race, and I think that's something that perhaps we need to look at.
Changes to the exam system have been anticipated by a series of newspaper leaks - an issue raised by the education select committee in questions to Mr Gove.
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