CHANGES to A-Level exams will force universities to set extra tests, according to headteachers.
Comments at the annual meeting of the Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference revealed fears that universities will increasingly turn to entrance exams Headteachers said stand alone tests would be needed because of a shortage of concrete information about students when they apply.
Currently students apply to university at the end of the first year of the sixth-form; when AS results are now published.
Pupils now sit AS exams at the end of the first year and A2 in the second year, with results combining to form overall A-Level grades. However ministers claim that pupils are spending too much time taking exams.
And now want all tests to be taken at the end of the two years.
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