In 2003, according to the College Board, just 4.5% of Alabama's successful AP students (those who passed the subject exam) were black.
Russell Hobby, the general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, welcomed the move towards having a single exam board per subject, which he said was sensible and would "remove a lot of concerns about the system".
This year, there have been 141, 500 exam candidates for the subject at GCSE, compared with 12, 300 in 1997.
Those jobs in Mr Jungmann's ministry that are filled by public exam will not be subject to quotas.
And it calls for a delay in the move towards the appointment of one exam board per EBC subject.
There was a plan to have one exam board for each subject.
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But Mr Gove told the Commons it was his plan to introduce a single exam board for each subject, to avoid what had been described as a race to the bottom, that had prompted him to withdraw his plans.
The government's plan was to put each subject's EBC exam out to tender with exams boards and then choose one board to be the provider for a particular subject.
At the moment, schools can choose which exam board they use for every subject and pay the individual boards.
Every year through to Grade 12, we sit three exams at the end of each term for every single subject, and the final term exam we have to pass (and pass it well), or we fail and we would have to repeat the year, while some of our friends move on.
The subject is being offered by the OCR and AQA exam boards.
AQA's first cohort will take the exam in summer 2014 - with 231 schools signed up to teach the subject.
Five days before any exam, go online and find as many midterms you can about that subject matter from many universities.
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The backdrop to the challenges to exam results this summer has been the dispute over GCSE English grades, which is to be subject to a judicial review.
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