Education written question – answered at on 1 December 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many errors were made in (a) GCSE and (b) A-level examination papers in each year since 2000.
Responsibility for the independent regulation of examinations and qualifications (including GCSEs and A Levels) lies with Ofqual. Comparable figures for uncorrected errors in live examination papers are only available from 2006. The number of errors recorded in (a) GCSE and (b) A level examination papers in England is given in the following table.
Recorded GCSE exam errors | Recorded A Level exam errors | Total | |
2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2008 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
2009 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2010 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2011 | 4 | 7 | 11 |
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