Last week, senior English examiner Anne Barnes warned that rising pass rates did not necessarily mean children were better educated.
Pass rates have gone up every year except for this one, drawing claims that they were getting progressively easier.
Over the same period an 18-percentage point gap opened up between pass rates in A-levels and the International Baccalaureate.
Modular courses do have slightly higher pass rates, but this year is only the second in which a significant number of pupils have taken them.
"Each element of the study indicated that A-level physics had become easier over time and even the majority of teachers attributed rising pass rates over the past decade to this, " he said.
The National Union of Teachers warned of an "inherent contradiction" in the government's criticism of GCSEs - saying that it was "nonsensical" to expect higher pass rates from schools while at the same time saying that any such improvement was evidence of exams becoming easier.
Additionally, the scanning technology itself has been upgraded to handle faster pass-over rates, meaning that scanning an A3 sheet can be done smoothly and quickly.
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And certainly, if that were to pass, it would affect interest rates.
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He said essentially that it's inconsequential, and he said that it's not going to pass in time to prevent those rates from doubling.
Democratic leaders are threatening to go over the fiscal cliff and let all the Bush-era tax rates expire, not pass a 2012 AMT patch and seek to pass tax cuts retroactively to Jan. 1, 2013 (and hopefully the AMT patch retroactive to 2012).
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Congress should do as it did after the 2010 elections, and pass an extension of all current tax rates, not just those on people making less than a certain amount.
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Pro Football Focus, a statistical service that grades every NFL player on every play, rates Gaither as one of the top pass blockers in the NFL over the past three weeks.
Since taking office he has threatened to default on Ecuador's foreign debt, expelled the chief World Bank representative from Ecuador, sued an Ecuadoran journalist for writing a column that criticized him and threatened to pass a law further capping private banks' interest rates.
While the direct cost of providing equal treatment to agency workers will fall on the employment agencies rather than the hirer, agencies may seek to pass on these costs to end-users in the rates charged for their workers.
With interest rates as low as they are, investors may want to position a segment of their portfolios to take advantage of a rapid increase in interest rates if the oil shortage scenario comes to pass and causes a flare up in inflation.
Mr. Norquist says Republicans should tough it out even if it means going over the tax cliff, pass a bill one more time to extend current tax rates in January, and then Mr. Obama will be the one to bend and sign it.
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Rising interest rates will increase expenditures faster than the Congress can pass a budget.
This means all their profits pass through directly to their owners--at personal tax rates.
And he dismissed the warning that banks would pass on any increased scheme costs to customers by cutting interest rates on savings.
Even strong advocates of the bill's creation of a right to sue HMOs acknowledge that rates will likely rise as health-care providers pass on insurance costs to customers.
Lenders pass the loan-guarantee fees on to borrowers in the form of higher rates.
Now they are starting to pass their funding costs on to their customers in the form of higher borrowing rates.
"Higher interest rates add to the cost of doing business, and businesses will pass those costs on to consumers, " he says.
Because there has not been any credible proposal that anyone has seen that could pass Congress or makes economic sense that creates the kind of revenue necessary without raising rates.
Because they pay out less in rent, employing tellers, electricity, and all the rest, online banks can pass along part of their savings to you in the form of the highest savings rates.
Comparing the two rates of infection, patients taking antiretroviral drugs were 96.3% less likely to pass on the virus.
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And now, just ten months after exchange rates were fixed and monetary policy was handed to the European Central Bank, is far too soon to pass judgment on the scheme, for good or ill.
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