The annual debate around exam standards is coming round again, so Ofqual have got in first by announcing that some aspects of GCSE Science really do seem to be dumbing down.
One of the questions deemed too easy to ask pupils (GCSE Science Edexcel, 2006) and widely quoted went as follows: Many people observe the stars using A) A telescope B) A microscope C) An X-Ray tube D) A synthesiser. Daily Mail readers from one end of Hampstead to the other got out their apoplexy at the undermining of British values, educational standards, Crufts and the royal family. Then asked each other what the answer was.
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