The cross-party report warned the proposed changes were being rushed and risked damaging the exam system.
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We will take whatever action is necessary to restore faith in our exam system.
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Teachers' trust in the exam system has been severely strained by the problems with grading.
The move would be the biggest change in the exam system in a generation.
It is a damage limitation exercise that will only erode public confidence in the exam system further.
We are very clear we will take whatever action is necessary to restore faith in the exam system.
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England's public exam system is going through the biggest changes for a generation.
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Michael Gove, UK Education Secretary, said the exam system needed to be replaced as it was not working for pupils.
Scotland has a separate exam system with most students sitting Standard Grade and Higher qualifications rather than GCSEs and A-levels.
Wide-ranging changes to the exam system, the national curriculum and teachers' pay in England have been confirmed in the Queen's Speech.
The exam system already covers up much of the failure in schools, enabling the government to insist that standards are rising.
There are also strong concerns about the speed of so many proposed changes - and the pressures that it will place on the exam system.
Brian Lightman, general secretary of the Association of School and College leaders said that repeatedly changing the exam system was "unproductive and unhelpful".
The report pointed to the controversy of last summer's English GCSE results as an example of the "turbulence" that could be caused by changes to the exam system.
Head teachers' leader Brian Lightman, who has campaigned over GCSE English grades, says it shows trust in the exam system is at an "all time low".
Mr Andrews later said he believed the exam system was being "politicised" in England - and that exam boards had been pressured to mark more harshly.
The education secretary said related exam reform will prove to be a success while radical reforms to the exam system in England will "end in tears".
The Welsh government says it will not be rushed into following any changes to the GCSE and is carrying out its own separate review into the exam system.
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.
As for Matthew Arnold's objections, the mindless drilling of pupils in Victorian schools was a fault of the exam system, not the means by which teachers were paid.
The Welsh government says it will not be rushed into following any changes being introduced in England and is carrying out its own separate review into the exam system.
He said it would have been wrong to go back the old dual exam system - and set out what he hoped would be gained from the revised GCSEs.
He said the career change was was partly prompted by disillusionment and a perception that what he sees as a corrupt exam system is leading to lower standards in schools.
Mr McConnell had defended what appeared at that stage to be a sharply increased pass rate, saying the new exam system was better adapted to the needs of more youngsters.
Universities had their own assessment procedures, she suggested, and if exam results were to be more precisely defined, percentages could be used, without having to further confuse the exam system.
Last week a report from the Commons Education Select Committee issued a "red light" warning to the government, urging it to slow down and rethink its proposed changes to GCSEs and the exam system.
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Monday's briefing will also confirm that Mr Gove has dropped plans for a two-tier exam system - with more academically-able students taking an O-level type exam and the rest taking an easier test.
We've got to get in to the (interjection) the vast majority of secondary schools in places like this city, we need to improve standards, we need to introduce rigor in to the exam system.
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Critics of the idea also point out that, unlike America, Britain already has a reasonably standardised exam system, which is designed to instil the sort of specialist knowledge that British undergraduate degrees tend to require.
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