Examination board

Examination board

An examination board is an organization that sets examinations and is responsible for marking them and distributing results. As such, examination boards have the power to award qualifications to students (such as SAT scores). Most exam boards are run as not-for-profit organizations.

List of examination boards

China

Hong Kong

* Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority (including the Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination (HKCEE) and Hong Kong Advanced Level Examination (HKALE))

Poland

* In Poland there are few organisations, called collectively "Okręgowa Komisja Egzaminacyjna", shortcut: (OKE), this means County Examining Commission, but each other has added to the title "OKE", a name of the City where its headquarters is placed in.
* Poland is divided into few regions, and all education institutions, which are operating at the territory of one of OKE's - are automatically under ruling of it, except for Universities.
* Of course, there are legal possibilities to pass exams under other OKE than regional, but it's not often practised.

* Every OKE prepares its exams, according to the Ministry of Education annual guidelines.
* Every OKE prepares Exams for Primary Schools, Gymnasiums and Secondary Schools, except for Matura (which is just prepared by Ministry of Education, but carried out by OKE's examiners.
*OKE associates teachers from its region, provides them examiner trainings, set and pay salary for examining.
*Every OKE certify results, and provides students by Certificates, which are signed by current Director of OKE.

United Kingdom

England, Wales and Northern Ireland

The members of this list all provide A-Level and GCSE qualifications:

*AQA
*CCEA
*Edexcel
*OCR
*WJEC

Traditionally, schools were restricted to one of a large number of regional examination boards, but now they can use any (though few outside Northern Ireland choose to use the Belfast-based CCEA). Furthermore, a number of boards have merged making a much lower number overall.

cotland

* SQA (including Advanced Highers, Highers and Standard Grades)

United States

* College Board (administers the SAT)
* ACT, Inc (administers the ACT)

West Africa

Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and the Gambia

* West African Examinations Council (administers the WASSCE)


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