Digital exam sector c.1999. Creating, deploying, scouting for good practice. geoffchapman.com | Advisor to investors, solution co's, exam owners.
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Jun 12
Why are examiners and exam marking dragged in the media during the peak exam season?
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Jun 10
Printer makes a mistake with a loose insert. Exam officers do a decent workaround, but blowhard school 'CEOs'-a bit too busy on the socials-pile on the exam board.
But never offer solutions.
Dare to suggest it wouldn't happen with digital, and their rage becomes incandescent.
Jun 10
Exclusive: Exam board AQA has apologised after students sitting a GCSE maths paper this morning found that the exam contained information intended for another paper
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If almost 10% of learners were impaired by an outdated exam regime, wouldn't you change it?
Read how a UK Medical College is challenging exam owners to change their exam access arrangements that are failing learners.
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With trust in assessment being corroded by trad paper exams and dogmatists, read how digital-enabled design re-builds trust, and gives more time for assessment supervision to benefit everyone.
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May 26
How will Martyn's Law change UK exam delivery? Organisations must re-assess their emergency preparedness. Read why candidate safety underpins this new era in exam delivery security.
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May 22
There are stunts for max reach. And there are carefully planned and financed campaigns to hold back assessment progress. Read how the assessment sector needs to re-gain authority and set the agenda.
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May 12
LMS-delivered exams were cyber-attacked. Using dedicated test software helps, but read how agentic AI skips this step to give more assessment supervision opportunities.
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Mar 10
Keep calm and debunk the myths. Read how the digital exam and learner equity debates make many feel like Yesterday's Man. How should the sector bring everyone on the digital journey?
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Pity those unwilling to improve assessment equity, access, and fairness via digital. They seek comfort with ‘tech bro’, calligraphy, and nostalgia arguments. Keeping learners with no agency and voice to struggle every day against manuscript martyrs with complexity phobia.
Mar 6
The introduction of on-screen exams could widen attainment gaps between disadvantaged students and their peers, warns @EducEndowFoundn in response to Ofqual consultation
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Feb 27
A pity the social media debate is conflated with digital exams assessment. A completely ring-fenced and separate sector, that UK has led for over 25 years.
But he was great in Croupier and Monsieur Spade, so I appreciate his experience and insight of high-stakes environments!
Feb 27
Final chance to write to the consultation to try and stop the government taking school exams online. This is the address to write to.
consultations@ofqual.gov.uk
And here’s what I wrote.
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Feb 15
Sad to see the paper exam supporters wheeling out tired, debunked excuses; moaning 'the country can't afford it', while the exam world moved on without England.
Feb 14
Up to half of school exams ‘will be on screen within a decade’, says board chief.
Advocates say digital assessments will make the system fairer, but critics fear students will lose writing skills.
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Feb 14
Children could be taking half their GCSEs and A-levels on screen within a decade, the head of the UK’s biggest exam board has said.
Read more as @RSylvester1 reports.
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Feb 12
Talking with PSI's Isabelle Gonthier on Balancing Innovation and Sustainability in the Future of Assessment. youtu.be/sEQG7xZg-6E?si=xQNe…
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18 Dec 2025
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15 Dec 2025
Sadly, celebs know and understand absolutely nothing about exam production and delivery. And even less about the decades-long on-screen exam sector that UK once led. Celebs also absently forget the learners currently locked out by paper delivery.
15 Dec 2025
If GCSE’s move online it will be a catastrophe. Citing “preparing for exams” schools will dump what little remains of books and pens and stuff our poor addicted children even further down the internet at great cost to their education, mental health and safety. @ofqual
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9 Dec 2025
Behavioural rehabilitation. 1000’s of ambulances on stand-by with oxygen tanks. Faulty electrician apprenticeships. Government and insurgents co-operating to deliver exams in a war zone.
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