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Students are duped into believing their innate abilities and potential are being tested whilst they are largely being tested on test-taking ability, confidence and pushiness. Guidelines are neither clear nor measurable.

Examination results depend on the opinion of the individual examiner.

As well as causing personal problems, pressure can lead many bright students to under-perform.

The pressure attached to A’levels and GCSEs is huge and causes many problems.

Coursework is a much more genuine assessment of a candidate.

Exams test memory more than analysis, creativity, or real understanding.

The microscopic and responsive nature of examining does not reflect how we use intelligence and knowledge in the real world.

Examinations do not show if someone has truly acquired certain knowledge.

This leaves exams as the only obvious choice, but do they accurately & fairly test students’ knowledge? All the Yes points: Coursework is being discredited as a way of demonstrating knowledge as it is becoming easier to plagiarise or even buy coursework over the internet. Many students dislike exams and children of all ages seem to have a diet of more and more exams that they have to take.