Examiners tip off teachers to help students pass

United Kingdom: An undercover investigation by The Daily Telegraph discloses that teachers are paying up to £230 a day to be advised by the examiners on exam how to improve the GCSE and A-level results.

The advice appears to go far beyond the standard “guidance” and opens exam boards to accusations that they are undermining the purpose of exam syllabuses by encouraging “teaching to the test”.

One chief examiner has been secretly recorded by this newspaper telling teachers which questions their pupils could expect in the next round of exams.

“We’re cheating,” he says. “We’re telling you the cycle [of the compulsory question]. Probably the regulator will tell us off.”


He advised teachers that he was telling them how to “hammer exam technique” rather than the approach of “proper educationalists” to “teach the lot”.