{"id":440,"date":"2011-12-08T18:18:23","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T18:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astarmathsandphysics.com\/tutor_profiles\/paul_smith\/paul_smiths_blog\/?p=440"},"modified":"2011-12-08T18:18:23","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T18:18:23","slug":"edexcel-exams-are-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2011\/12\/edexcel-exams-are-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Edexcel Exams are Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been saying this to my students for years. Now it is confirmed in public by a Edexcel official, in the latest scandal to hit this bunch of idiots – this is a quote from the Daily Telegraph:
\nExam chief, Steph Warren, a chief examiner at Edexcel, one of Britain\u2019s biggest exam boards, has been recorded boasting about the easiness of the company\u2019s tests.: ‘you don’t have to teach a lot’ for our tests’.<\/p>\n

I have sent them this email<\/p>\n

Can you also please confirm that your exams are the easiest in the world and if I take them I cannot possibly fail, even if I have no brain, and no feet, ears, eyes or even a head?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been saying this to my students for years. Now it is confirmed in public by a Edexcel official, in the latest scandal to hit this bunch of idiots – this is a quote from the Daily Telegraph: Exam … Continue reading →<\/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-440","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-76","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":430,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2011\/12\/british-exam-boards-in-massive-cheating-scam\/","url_meta":{"origin":440,"position":0},"title":"British Exam Boards in Massive Cheating Scam","author":"taxicle","date":"December 7, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"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 - they are a bunch of morons anyway), it seems, have been allowing teachers to essentially see exam papers in advance for\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":704,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2012\/09\/spit-to-get-your-edexcel-english-gcse-grade\/","url_meta":{"origin":440,"position":1},"title":"Spit to Get Your Edexcel English GCSE Grade!","author":"taxicle","date":"September 11, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Noone believes in Edexcel anymore. 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