yourself?

 

Exam papers will be tagged this summer in a crackdown on cheating, one of the country's biggest exam boards reveals today.

Edexcel, which marks 13 million question papers a year, will install a radio-controlled device in bags of exam papers held by schools.

The tag will tell it how many papers should be inside and whether there has been an attempt to open the bag before the exam starts.

In addition, the board's name is written in microtext (invisible to the naked eye but detectable through a special magnifying device) around individual papers, to deter photocopying of the paper - and its sale on the open market. A paper can fetch £200 the day before an exam, officials said.

 

The crackdown follows the discovery of a theft of an A-level maths paper last summer. The board said there had been 70 reported breaches of security during last summer's GCSE, AS and A-level papers.

 

Jerry Jarvis, Edexcel's managing director, said: "My main message is if you're going to cheat, I'm going to catch you. I don't want to catch you, but I do want to deter you from cheating."

 

Next year, Edexcel plans to step up the security with locking boxes for exam papers. These can only be opened through radio instructions delivered using a mobile phone - allowing Edexcel to open the bags at the appropriate time from its headquarters.

The exam board says it is also taking measures to crack down on plagiarism. Measures include checking the seating layout in exam halls to identify copying, and comparing results against predicted grades.

 

I must say it sounds a bit excessive but if that's what they want to spend their money on then I spose they're perfectly etitled to do so...

I dont like the idea of mapping peoples seats to see if their is any copying by looking to see if any papers are similar. Me and my mate have been in the same english classes throughout our education and unsurprisingly when we do essays in class they turn out to be relatively similar, I think it is a bit unfair to accuse us of cheating if in the real exam our answers are also similar.

I think it is all over the top to be honest

 

Measures include checking the seating layout in exam halls to identify copying, and comparing results against predicted grades.

the predicted grades go off how you did in the "mock" exams, what if you got your head down in the books and revised and came out with a better grade then you were predicted? and you managed it all off your own back, is that cheating just because you did a lot better then the predicted grades?

 

using predicted grades as a measure to see if someone cheats is ludicrous :blink:

 

I got an A* in R.E. and I was predicted a B i think :lol:

 

Maths not as dramatic predicted a B got an A.

 

I think Edexcel need to realise students really don't get fired up for mocks, hence the lower marks

He's right, I went from an E to a B in Higher Maths.

I went from a U to a B in Psychology :lol: That's just ridiculous -_-