HUNDREDS of 14-year-olds in Bolton who received the wrong grades in their English national curriculum tests should receive re-marked grades in September.
At least six Bolton schools are believed to have been affected by nationwide problems with the results of national curriculum tests -- which saw thousands of students being given the wrong marks in this year's English tests.
Results which should have been delivered before the summer holiday arrived in Bolton weeks late, with many tests being wrongly marked.
The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) have issued a statement saying that pupils whose tests were wrongly marked will receive their revised grades next month. A spokesman said the problems were not expected to delay the publication of the national figures for English, maths and science, as the proportion requiring remarking was small.
The QCA has sent in its own experts to the exam board, Assessment and Qualifications Alliance (AQA), which did the original marking, to ensure the process was "fair".
The process of checking marks around borderlines grades was supposed to happen before results were sent to schools.
But because of technical problems sparked by changes to the way entries were marked this year, the QCA's offshoot the National Assessment Agency (NAA), and the AQA, its sub-contractor, were unable to complete the process before the July 13 deadline.
The delays have meant several schools in Bolton have been unable to plan properly for the next school year as the test results are used to help teachers put children into sets.
Many teachers have had to spend extra time in school over the holidays sorting out the problem.
The national round-up of how many 14-year-olds reached Level 5 in each subject, the Government's required standard, is due on August 24.
HUNDREDS of 14-year-olds in Bolton who received the wrong grades in their English national curriculum tests should receive re-marked grades in September.
At least six Bolton schools are believed to have been affected by nationwide problems with the results of national curriculum tests -- which saw thousands of students being given the wrong marks in this year's English tests.
Results which should have been delivered before the summer holiday arrived in Bolton weeks late, with many tests being wrongly marked.
The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) have issued a statement saying that pupils whose tests were wrongly marked will receive their revised grades in September.
A spokesman said the problems were not expected to delay the publication of the national headline figures for English, maths and science, as the proportion requiring remarking was small in statistical terms.
The QCA has sent in its own experts to exam board the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance (AQA), which did the original marking, to ensure the process was "fair".
The process of checking marks around borderlines grades was supposed to happen before results were sent to schools.
But because of technical problems sparked by changes to the way entries were marked this year, the QCA's offshoot the National Assessment Agency (NAA), and the AQA, its sub-contractor, were unable to complete the process before the July 13 deadline.
The delays have meant several schools in Bolton have been unable to plan properly for the next school year as the test results are used to help teachers put children into sets.
Many teachers have had to spend extra time in school over the holidays sorting out the problem.
The national round-up of how many 14-year-olds reached Level 5 in each subject, as the Government's required standard is known, is due on August 24.
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