David Mabuza, a former education minister, has also failed to shine: education officials last year fiddled exam results.
Mr Fitzpatrick said teachers' morale was still suffering after last year's exam fiasco and urged education leaders to step up their attempts to get things right this year and listen to teachers' needs.
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.
He gave a physical exam to a 12-year-old, a follow-up exam to a head-injury patient and evaluated a child on attention-deficit medication.
Three days before her business exam last year, she gave birth to second daughter Sienna, but said she did not let that stop her carrying on her studies.
Litzman wrote that after receiving a 97.6% on his entrance exam last year, he "inquired about keeping my naturally short beard intact" and filled out a religious accommodation form.
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The figure is about one in 14 of those who took the exam earlier this year.
Pupils went straight into lessons or, in the case of the current Year 11s, a science exam.
The scope for this lay in the fact that they had to decide where the boundary mark should be between exam grades each year, there being a natural tendency towards generosity.
"Last year 96% of pupils sat an exam that included English literature and more young people are achieving the higher grades in English each year, " said Mr Knight.
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.
Another way in which the government has tried this year to address the complaint that exam results are too narrow a measure of performance has caused considerable controversy.
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Head teachers, teachers' leaders and pupils have complained that those who sat the exam in January this year were treated more leniently than those who sat it in June.
But the survey annually discovers less obvious trends such as people in the west midlands spend the shortest average time on hospital waiting lists, while Scottish 16-year-olds get the best exam results.
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Last year, while studying for a history exam, he grew frustrated with the flood of text from Google search results.
It refused to order exam boards to regrade this year's exams.
Dr McLone said that out of 6.5 million exam entries in Britain last year there were only 40 cases of cheating, in conditions of strict invigilation that were likely to catch any would-be wrongdoers.
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This year, there have been 141, 500 exam candidates for the subject at GCSE, compared with 12, 300 in 1997.
Terence Stokes, 24, was found guilty of pretending to be his 28-year-old brother Michael Stokes for the written exam.
In 1992, I enrolled in the program through the CFA Institute and passed all three exam levels in the minimum three-year period.
Last year, 45% of students who took the exam were members of a minority group, up from 38% of the 1.56 million who took it in 2008.
The QCA will be scrutinising exam papers and candidates' scripts this year more than ever in the effort to try to ensure that standards are maintained - but says it does not intervene with the exam boards to tell them where to fix the boundaries between grades.
Consider the exam questions that schools posed to 14-year-olds in 1910 and 1990.
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Last year there were 85, 000 for all levels of exam - of which 46% were successful - while in 2001 there were 77, 000.
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From any internet access point in the world, thousands of students this year will be able to download their results from one exam board at least.
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