{"id":430,"date":"2011-12-07T22:17:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T22:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astarmathsandphysics.com\/tutor_profiles\/paul_smith\/paul_smiths_blog\/?p=430"},"modified":"2011-12-07T22:17:51","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T22:17:51","slug":"british-exam-boards-in-massive-cheating-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2011\/12\/british-exam-boards-in-massive-cheating-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"British Exam Boards in Massive Cheating Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the British exam boards- aqa, edexcel, wjec, ocr, cie (am not sure about ocr and cie, but would be happy for them to sue me for libel &#8211; they are a bunch of morons anyway), it seems, have been allowing teachers to essentially see exam papers in advance for \u00a3200 a day. They have been told the questions and exact wording that should be used to get the most marks.<br \/>\nHell, why don&#8217;t they just sell the papers to anyone who can afford an outrageous fee to be met in some anonymous field at midnight by someone with a paper programmed to self destruct after the twenty minutes it takes to read it?<br \/>\nI am sending an email to edexcel.<br \/>\nPlease can I have all your exam papers for June 2012? I promise not to give them away or sell them, unlike some of your staff.<br \/>\nI await their reply.<\/p>\n<p>And here one is.<br \/>\nThank you for contacting the Edexcel Ask the Expert service. One of our administrative or teaching experts will answer your query shortly.<\/p>\n<p>Your reference number can be found in the email subject field.<\/p>\n<p>Please reply to this email if you have any further information regarding your query.<\/p>\n<p>I did reply. I said,<br \/>\nCan you include all the Jan 2012 papers too?<\/p>\n<p>We seem to be having a regular exchange here. Their reply, and my reply to their reply:<br \/>\n Contact History<br \/>\n Response (Warrick Harniess)\t08\/12\/2011 11.04 AM<br \/>\nThank you for your enquiry. It is not possible to assist you as requested.<\/p>\n<p>Mr L O&#8217;Callaghan (Temporary)<br \/>\nStudent Services<\/p>\n<p>My reply: Please please send me all the papers. I will send you some apples for xmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the British exam boards- aqa, edexcel, wjec, ocr, cie (am not sure about ocr and cie, but would be happy for them to sue me for libel &#8211; they are a bunch of morons anyway), it seems, have been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2011\/12\/british-exam-boards-in-massive-cheating-scam\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Wm4j-6W","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":440,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2011\/12\/edexcel-exams-are-easy\/","url_meta":{"origin":430,"position":0},"title":"Edexcel Exams are Easy","author":"taxicle","date":"December 8, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I have been saying this to my students for years. 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