UK: Students Can Get an A With Almost Half the Questions Wrong in New ‘Tougher’ A-Levels, Leak Reveals
15th August 2018
Grade inflation, the ‘puff pastry’ of modern education.
The A-levels are the tests Brits take to get into university. British secondary education stops at 16, what American’s would call 10th grade; ‘school leaving certificate’ used to be called O-levels and is now called GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education). Those going on to college take two more years (called Sixth Form) and then take A-levels. Like the SAT or ACT, your A-level performance pretty much determines how spiff a university you can get into.
Education in the U.K. is much more centralized and government-controlled than in the U.S.