EBCs in English, maths and science are due to be introduced in autumn 2015, with the first exams being taken in 2017.
Ofqual's research found many schools used the marks pupils received in their first exams and the January grade boundaries to work out what score a pupil would need in their controlled assessment to get a certain grade and marked it accordingly.
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GCSEs were introduced in the late 1980s, to replace the dual system of O-levels and CSEs, with the first GCSE exams taken in 1988.
The 150, 000 applicants each year must first pass exams in chemistry, physics and mathematics before they can sit for a second set of grueling analytical tests.
Whether they are tested on those in the first or second years is optional, but most schools and colleges seem to have opted for first year exams, Winchester among them.
He gained first place in English law exams and built up a law practice in the north of the country.
In Kentucky, the first state to replace state exams with tests based on Common Core, the percentage of students meeting math and reading goals dropped by about one-third last year.
While she passed the extensive blind tastings and written exams on the first try, it took four attempts and a performance coach go get her through the final service exam.
For secondary level there are two exams which certify the completion of first or second level, and assess knowledge on mathematics, social and natural sciences and philosophy (the number and content of subjects varies per level).
Her daughter, Manju, is only a few exams away from becoming the slum's first woman to gain a bachelor's degree.
Thousands of medical students face having their first hospital job offer withdrawn because of marking errors in their exams.
The announcement followed the publication of this year's A-level exams on Thursday, which showed that for the first time, girls are performing better than boys.
Students torn between watching England's first Euro 2000 match and doing last-minute revision for their exams were given official blessing to take the evening off.
This change recently created more controversy on campus after an academic official asked instructors not to schedule midterm exams on Nov. 2, the date of the first such game.
They are worried that the first wave of pupils to experience it in secondary schools will underachieve in exams because their teachers are not sure how to turn the loose objectives into day-to-day lessons.
The original plan had been for the first candidates to start courses in 2015 and take the new-look exams two years later, initially in three core subject areas - English, maths and sciences - with an extension later to history, geography and languages.
The original plan had been for the first candidates to start EBC courses in 2015 and take the new-look exams two years later.
She has missed out on qualification for the World Championships taking place in China this month because she was ill for the first qualifying event and didn't take part in the second because of exams.
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And of course, we can see it right here at Miami Central. (Applause.) A little more than a decade ago, when the state exams started, Miami Central scored a D in each of its first five years.
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We try to do simple things like not shifting people in the first two to three months of the year because that's when schools have exams.
The 6ft 4ins Welshman has enjoyed his first Lions tour, although it will soon be back to his medical studies, with exams in August, then the final two years of a five-year course that he will spread over the next four years as he bids to become Doctor Roberts.
He said the introduction of two-stage A-levels meant pupils had lost their previous freedom, in the first years after GCSEs, to think and read more widely, in the knowledge that the next exams were still some time off.
But music exams, for example in violin or piano, are to be counted in the tables for the first time.
We've heard for years the ridiculous argument that the presidents put the student first in student athletes, and that a playoff would take too much time and keep them from their final exams.
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