GCSE and A-Level students could still be asked to do tests to help teachers with their grades after formal exams were scrapped, Gavin Williamson has suggested.
In a letter to exams regulator Ofqual, the Education Secretary confirmed that grades would not be doled out by algorithm after last year's exam chaos.
But he said pupils could still be asked to sit externally set papers this year, to help establish their grades. In a letter to Ofqual’s chief regulator Simon Lebus, Mr Williamson has said he would like “to explore the possibility” of using externally set tasks or papers to help teachers with their assessments of students.
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