§ Mr. HoyleTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many of the companies involved in marking examination papers made errors in the last 12 months for which figures are available; how many students were affected by mistakes made by examination boards; and how much examination work remains untraced. [46450]
§ Mr. Ivan LewisThe accuracy of the five examination boards (AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJC, and CCA) has been assessed for the summer 2000 A level and GCSE examination series.
The figures are as follows:
Out of 774,380 candidate entries at A-level there were 4,505 marking errors discovered during inquiries about results—0.6 per cent. of all papers.
Out of 5,532,411 candidate entries at GCSE, 6,368 had marking errors discovered during inquiries about results—0.1 per cent. of all papers.
There are no reliable figures for untraced examination work.