More than 250 pupils are
to have their exam results changed by up to two grades - as an exam board says
it has found mistakes in the adding up of the totals of papers and units of
exams.
The OCR exam has recently found mistakes in the
adding up of the totals of papers and units of exams. So far the examination
board has been contacting 180 schools about grade changes at A-Level, As-level
and GCSE. This means that more than 250 pupils could have their exams results
changed by up to two grades. However it remains uncertain whether any
university applications were affected by the incorrect grades.
Mistakes were made in adding up the sub-totals of
marks in the exams taken in summer 2011. As a result the exam board says that
four examiners have had their contracts terminated.
Another 78 examiners have been told to
"improve their performance".
OCR's chief executive, Mark Dawe, said: "I am
disappointed to have to confirm a number of grade changes as a result of the
discovery of clerical errors made last year.
"Mistakes were made by examiners in the
transcribing and totalling of marks," he said.
The exam board says that grades awarded in 15
A-levels, 28 AS-levels and 34 GCSE short courses will now be changed - mostly
raising them by one grade.
But there are five candidates who are to have their
exam results improved by two grades. In addition there are another 137 cases in
which parts of exams taken last year are to have their grades increased - with
this being taken into account for the final grades to be awarded for
qualifications later this summer.
The exam board says the mistakes have emerged after
a full investigation of last year's papers - and that measures are now in place
to prevent such errors.
Exam boards came under scrutiny last summer after a
series of errors were found in papers, such as multiple-choice questions where
all the answers were incorrect.
But the exam season of summer 2012 seem so far to
have passed without any major problems.
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