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Date: 15 May 2008 18:57:03
This BBC article highlights concerns about the exam congestion students are facing.
This exam congestion disadvantages students taking particular packages of subjects more than others. A real step forward would be if the exam boards actually gave some thought to what subjects "go together" and didn't put all the papers for one subject on the same date. To highlight the madness of the current system 2 AS English papers and all 3 AS Psychology papers are being sat tomorrow. For many students this means over 5 hours of exams in one day (even more for those entitled to extra time). This cannot be right and means that by Psychology paper 3 any student taking both subjects will be likely to be struggling.
Add on to this the fact that Sociology, a subject many students take with English and Psychology, has its final AS paper on Monday and one realises that students taking a popular range of subjects are severly disadvantaged. Firstly because of the amount of exams over a few days, secondly because their papers are all towards the beginning of the exam programme where as some subjects have an extra 3 weeks until their papers and finally because it is impossible for them to properly schedule revision and breaks between exam papers.
So I hope the exam board listen to the recommendations. We all except with the amount of exams to be fitted in that there will be issues, but surely a bit more thought could sort some of them out.