O.W.L. exams

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 84302

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Pen Robinson <pen at p...> wrote:
 
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> Oops - meant to follow up further.
> 
> However, she 

(JKR)

> may well have decided 
> that for dramatic reasons, the system at Hogwarts is a little bit 
> different - for example, the attendance of the external examiners.  
> When I took practical parts of exams (ie oral tests, dictations etc 
in 
> French and German), these were given by a member of the staff - 
> anything else would be impractical.
> 


When I took French at GCE O-level - yonks ago - and a little more 
recently German A-levels, the situation was akin to Hogwarts in that 
the orals were conducted by external examiners.

Geoff