Saturday, June 3, 1972
ENGLISH COMPOSITION PAPERS NOT TO BE RESET
Investigations Into Alleged Irregularities Completed
Students who took part in this year's Certificate of Education (English) examinations will not be asked to sit for their English composition
papers again.
Announcing this decision to-day (Saturday), an Education Department
spokesman said that allegations had been made that some students had
been given model composition on two topics resembling those actually set
in the examination.
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Investigations into these alleged irregularities had revealed
that a number of students had in fact made use of these model compositions.
The number of students affected is very samll indeed compared
with the total number of candidates, the vast majority of whom have handed
in original work. It has therefore been decided not to reset the examination,
Candidates who have submitted arginal work will be assessed in
the normal way and will in no way be affected by this incident. Those
compositions resembling the model- essays are being scrutinised separately
and the results of the scrutiny will be passed to the Board of examination
for a final decision on each case.
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