Insight: Is another exam crisis brewing in Scotland? – The Scotsman
WHEN Eve McTiernan heard Nicola Sturgeon say there was no requirement for senior pupils to sit prelims or exams this year – a message also publicly promoted by the Scottish Qualifications Authority – her reaction was one of disbelief.
“To be honest, I laughed,” she says. Eve, who is a sixth year pupil at Kilsyth Academy, is crashing three Highers: French, Politics and PE, and needs at least one B to take up her conditional place to study politics at Glasgow University.
Despite the Scottish government’s pronouncements, she already has her timetable of what may officially be termed ‘assessments’ – but which, to her, look very much like exams.