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Computer Science GCSE in Disarray After Tasks Leaked Online (bbc.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: The new computer science GCSE has been thrown into disarray after programming tasks worth a fifth of the total marks were leaked repeatedly online. Exams regulator Ofqual plans to pull this chunk of the qualification from the overall marks as it has been seen by thousands of people. Ofqual said the non-exam assessment may have been leaked by teachers as well as students who had completed the task. The breach affects two year groups. The first will sit the exam in summer 2018. Last year 70,000 students were entered for computer science GCSE. A quick internet search reveals numerous posts about the the non-exam assessment, with questions and potential answers.
Using the study–test paradign to pass on the knowledge and skills of a complex subject just doesn't work.
Your proof of ability should be your portfolio, and your working relationship with actual professionals.
Sure, medical doctors do take exams along the way, but they'll all tell you that what really counts are the endless hours of working with their betters until they themselves become somebody else's better.
Education needs to be re-arranged around this apprenticeship model; interviewing and testing are bullshit ideas—your movement through society's functions should be well defined.
What is that? No idea. Ain't America.
And you can't search ? I guess an American cares not about what happens beyond its borders.
General Certificate of Secondary Education .