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1/Teachers have told @TesScotland the system replacing the exams this year is "utter chaos" and "a shambles"
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2/The ways pupils are being assessed is hugely varied - from schools essentially running an exam diet where pupils will gather later this term in halls en masse, to those spreading out assessments over a longer period and doing them in class time
3/Some pupils face multiple assessments in a day but in other schools assessments have been spread out to ensure they have no more than one a day
4/ @LeadersScotland argues the range of approaches is "perfectly legitimate" given "no child’s or school’s experience will have been the same since they came back in August” - although gen sec Jim Thewliss cautions a big end of term assessment is risky
5/However the range of approaches also means pupils are sitting the same question papers - the 2020 exams that were never used - at different times and already teachers say they are sharing them on platforms like TikTok
6/Teachers also say all the assessment is taking its toll - one teacher describes their pupils as "shells of humans" and another with over a decade of experience says "this is hands down the worst time in my career"
That teacher said staff were being expected to be "superhuman"
That teacher said staff were being expected to be "superhuman"
However, whilst @LeadersScotland says the system is not perfect - general secretary Jim Thewliss says "no one has come up with a better way of doing it "
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