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James O'Brien explains how the A-level debacle came to happen, describing it as "a callous lack of care". Ministers are facing pressure from senior Conservatives to abandon this year's A-level ...
Sale talks for TikTok’s US operations have been complicated by the key question of whether the app’s core algorithms can be included as part of a deal.
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SINGAPORE: About 87.7 per cent of students scored at least five passes at the 2024 GCE O-Level examinations, slightly above the previous year's mark of 86.8 per cent. Of the 22,661 candidates who ...
The A-level algorithm predicts inaccurate grades at least a third of the time, the exam regulator’s own analysis reveals. The accuracy of A-level grades, calculated by Ofqual’s statistical ...
Humans may lack algorithms’ incredible ability to spot patterns, the researchers say, but they’re adept at spotting differences between two things. If humans can consistently identify what feature the ...
The MATSEC examinations board has issued an apology for a question used in the Arabic O-level exam which asked students to translate what was effectively a suicide message. Students sitting for ...
This Star reader says he has been left completely bemused by the shambles surrounding how this year’s A-Level grades were decided by a controversial algorithm.