Exam board defines “short graphic file” and defies logic

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

The exam board Edexcel isn’t covering itself in glory this week. Yesterday we reported how the board failed hundreds of teenage students because their work was submitted in the wrong format. Now, a teacher’s been in touch to reveal an alarming lack of know-how from the board’s so-called IT “Experts”.

Puzzled by an Edexcel paper that demanded his pupils produce a document containing ”a short graphic file from the internet”, our man sent a letter to the board’s experts to find out exactly what they meant.

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