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150,000 Sats review mess; SCHOOLS.


MORE than 150,000 Sats tests were asked to be remarked by teachers last year, an official report revealed yesterday.

The alarming figures show English 1. English - (Obsolete) The source code for a program, which may be in any language, as opposed to the linkable or executable binary produced from it by a compiler. The idea behind the term is that to a real hacker, a program written in his favourite programming language is  results were most queried with 25,142 returned by primary schools - almost 18 times the previous year.

The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority report comes after 1.2 million pupils' results were delayed after gaffes by ETS ETS Educational Testing Service (nonprofit private educational testing and measurement organization)
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 Europe in 2008.

Unions said it showed there was no faith in the marking.

The National Association of Head Teachers added: "These figures are appalling."
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Publication:The Mirror (London, England)
Date:Mar 19, 2009
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