Large numbers of young people will be trying to take exams over the next few days on modules that will count towards their final mark, but the cold weather (and possible further snow) may mean that some may not be able to get to schools to take their exams. I think this would be very unfair on those who, through no fault of their own cannot get to schools/colleges, especially in more rural areas.
The exam boards say the exams can't be postponed, and nor can they be expected to set extra papers for (say) next month when hopefully the weather will have cleared. All they will say is that people who can't take their modules now can do so in June.
But this mean that some students get to do their exams now when the subject matter is fresh in their mind and they can concentrate on a small number of papers, whilst others will have to sit them in June alongside all their other papers. This is unlikely to be give a fair assessment of the relative strengths of the different candidates - which is presumably the point of the exams.
Whilst some students will have no trouble getting in next week, too many face disruption for the exam boards to refuse to act. In my view the fairest thing to all would be a short delay - perhaps a month - which would save the exam boards having to set extra exams but would avoid an exam pile-up in the Summer. We need to get the exam boards to show a bit of humanity.
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3 comments:
I agree!!!
It's not going to happen though is it?!
Why aren't more people doing something about it?? This is serious but it just seems like everybody is accepting the situation as if it doesn't matter
Perhaps if schools still taught a subject instead of how to pass a particular exam the knowledge may last for more than a couple of days!!
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