Comments on: Gove’s exam reforms are a dangerous step backwards https://thechamberlainfiles.com/goves-exam-reforms-are-a-dangerous-step-backwards/5530 Politics, LEPs and economic development in the West Midlands Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:50:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: PeterSmallbone https://thechamberlainfiles.com/goves-exam-reforms-are-a-dangerous-step-backwards/5530#comment-3499 PeterSmallbone Mon, 03 Dec 2012 12:33:13 +0000 https://thechamberlainfiles.com/?p=5530#comment-3499 'There are very few jobs where you are hired after taking a three-hour exam.' Clearly the author knows nothing about how nearly every graduate recruitment scheme, in part, recruits its graduates. As it happens, I can see the merits of continuous assessment; my English GCSEs had no exams at all and were less stressful as a result. But technology has overtaken events and we have to move with the times. ‘There are very few jobs where you are hired after taking a three-hour exam.’ Clearly the author knows nothing about how nearly every graduate recruitment scheme, in part, recruits its graduates.

As it happens, I can see the merits of continuous assessment; my English GCSEs had no exams at all and were less stressful as a result. But technology has overtaken events and we have to move with the times.

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