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Compromised Computing GCSE fears
Fears have surfaced that a GCSE exam in Computing has been ‘blatantly compromised’ after the answers to a controlled assessment were discovered in the back of a course textbook.
A teacher, who is remaining anonymous, has claimed that his students produced almost identical answers to a practical investigation task in this year's OCR computing GCSE, after the students found the answers in a 2012 course textbook co-authored by a senior OCR computing examiner.
This has led to one of the teachers questioning the advisability of senior examiners writing textbooks in the same subject as that in which they are examining.
In a statement, OCR said it took the standard of assessments very seriously and remains confident that the task is not compromised. The exams regulator Ofqual said OCR had notified them of the problem and was investigating.
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