[HPforGrownups] Re: Flitwick as DADA professor?

[Silverthorne Dragon]

No: HPFGUIDX 90914


{Dessie}

Maybe this is a British thing again, but I always viewed the OWLs as
being the equivalent to GCSEs, or O-levels as were, and I know I'm
not the only one. In GCSE and A-level exams, the teachers who
moderate the exam - say 'you may start the exam now', walk up and
down the tables and so on - are rarely the same teachers that teach
the subject. In fact (though I don't think it's a requirement of the
exam boards) many schools don't let teachers moderate exams in their
own subjects, for fear of cheating I suppose.


{Anne}

Well, when I was in highschool (age 13-17), we had the SAT's (Standard
Aptititude Tests), which I sort of see as being the same thing (only ours
seem to happen every year, although I might be misremembering--it's been
over 14 years since my last one). From what a friend from the UK told me,
they are very similar in use and function to the UK's GCSE's, and, like
them, when I took them we were typically moved to a cafeteria or large
conference type room to be given the test, and it was usualy over-looked by
teachers (or maybe government officials) that we did not know or recognize.
The reasoning, I presume, as you say,  was to keep the testing as 'honest'
as possible....