Examination Boards

[Johno]

In Scotland we only have one exam/qualifications board which makes it much easier to understand whats going on, all this AQA and EDEXCEL stuff is just plain confusing.

So for me its SQA (Scottish Qualifications Authority)

[buttons]

In Scotland we only have one exam/qualifications board which makes it much easier to understand whats going on, all this AQA and EDEXCEL stuff is just plain confusing.

So for me its SQA (Scottish Qualifications Authority)

this one ^

[Kardan]

AQA for nearly everything. EdExcel for Geography, and WJEC for RE.

I'm not sure what my current school do for French, but when I took it in Year 9, I did that with OCR.

[Blue]

My school use EdExcel for Re and music I thinik
OCR for IT
and the rest are AQA afaik

[Geraint]

WJEC for most but EdExcel for Geography and PE. IT could well be EdExcel aswell, forgot what that is though.

[DieselShaq]

Woah, no schools in England using CIE?

[Xarea]

We use AQA, EdExcel (which I found out stands for "Educational Excellence" - boring fact there), WJEC and OCR.

[Soka]

I'm doing exams for AQA (Accounting, General Studies), Citi & Guilds (Key Skills Communications), Edexcel (Physics), and OCR (Maths, Further Maths).

I think my college uses all awarding bodies apart from the CIE one.

I don't really think there is a big gap in terms of difficulty between awarding bodies for a subject because otherwise colleges would always use the easier one, which means the awarding bodies would keep making the exams easier. There are variations in specifications for various awarding bodies which could result in varies in difficultness.

Even if it does seem to be a more difficult awarding body, remember that the grade boundaries are altered and set, so that a certain percentage achieve grade A's etc, and the government can say blablabala have improved.

[Caution]

SQA(Scottish Qualifications Authority) Easier to understand.

[cocaine]

edexcel, AQA, and OCR.