An examination board (or exam board ) is an organization that sets examinations , is responsible for marking them, and distributes the results. Some are run by governmental entities; some are run as not-for-profit organizations .
14-619: The Joint Matriculation Board of the Universities of Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield and Birmingham ( JMB ), sometimes referred to as the Northern Universities Joint Matriculation Board , was an examination board , operating in England , Wales and Northern Ireland between 1903 and 1992. It became part of NEAB , which itself is now part of AQA . The Joint Matriculation Board
28-746: A problem, as, in England, the O Level and CSE had completely separate exam boards. To solve this, four English examining groups were created. Each group was made up of at least one GCE board and two or more CSE boards. The JMB became part of the Northern Examining Association (NEA), along with four CSE boards: the Associated Lancashire Schools Examining Board , the Northern Regional Examinations Board ,
42-534: A region are served by the regional OKE. Universities are not part of that system. It is allowed by law to sit an exam in other regional board than the home one, but practically it does not happen. Each OKE is responsible for the content and administration of the entrance tests to primary schools , Gymnasiums and secondary schools in accordance to the Ministry of Education annual guidelines. Final secondary school examination called Matura (analogous to A Levels)
56-545: Is prepared each year by the Ministry of Education and administered by regional examiners, who are recruited, trained and paid by regional OKE boards. Each regional OKE has an authority to issue an official certificate of an examination. The members of this list all provide A-Level and GCSE qualifications : 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
70-745: The Belfast -based CCEA). Furthermore, a number of boards have merged making a much lower number overall. Primary and secondary school tests are generally administered by the state boards of education - or in the case of private schools, private organizations whose affiliations align with those of the school. Tertiary school entrance qualifications and vocational qualifications are provided by other organizations. In India various state,national and international public & private examination authority or board conducts secondary and higher secondary examination called as Board examination in India which are held during
84-695: The Ministry of Education is mainly responsible for major education examinations, including overseas examination and gaokao in Mainland China. There is one state run central system of examination boards in Poland called "Centralna Komisja Egzaminacyjna" ("Central Examination Board") established within the new legislation on education issued by Polish parliament in 1998. The central board has eight regional branches called "Okręgowa Komisja Egzaminacyjna" (OKE) - "Regional Examination Board". All primary and secondary schools and other education institutions in
98-743: The North West Regional Examinations Board and the Yorkshire Regional Examinations Board . The JMB continued to offer A Level exams independently. As CSEs were now extinct, the old CSE boards effectively ceased to exist outside their GCSE examining groups. The NEA took this opportunity to rationalise and the JMB merged with the four other NEA members to form the Northern Examinations and Assessment Board (NEAB) in 1992. It
112-541: The GCE boards. Despite the GCE boards also being regional, schools were free to choose which one they entered their students for exams with. The JMB began to exploit this when they eventually began to market themselves outside their northern and Midlands heartland from 1978. In 1988, the GCE O Level and CSE were merged to form a new qualification: the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE). This posed
126-748: The SEC are available in both the Irish and English languages. The Irish SEC Leaving Certificate is also examined at The International School of the Martyrs (ISM) in Tripoli , Libya . The examination in Libya is available to students in Arabic. National Education Examinations Authority The National Education Examinations Authority ( NEEA ; Chinese : 教育部教育考试院 ) is an independent non-profit institution under
140-691: The board in 1905. The University of Birmingham followed in 1916, spreading the board's activities to the Midlands . When the first national qualifications, the School Certificate (SC) and Higher School Certificate (HSC) were introduced, the JMB offered the exams and rose to be the most popular exam board for the qualifications. When the SC and HSC were replaced by the GCE Ordinary Level and GCE Advanced Level respectively, JMB took on
154-460: The new qualifications and continued to be a leading provider. The government introduced the Certificate of Secondary Education (CSE) in 1965 for the majority of students working below O Level standard, but the JMB – like all the other GCE exam boards – was not asked to administer the new qualification. Instead, new regional exam boards were created for this purpose, to operate in parallel with
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#1732765875124168-565: The period from February to May every year .The following examination conducts the exam are Ireland In Ireland , exams are run through one main examination board called the State Examinations Commission (SEC) . This exam board provides examinations for secondary school level students, including Junior Certificate / Junior Cycle for students aged 14-16 and Leaving Certificate /Leaving Cert Applied (LCA) examinations for students aged 17-19. Examinations from
182-802: Was at this point that the universities behind the JMB took a more backseat role, with the NEAB becoming a charity and the universities remaining only as board members. NEAB then merged with AEB/SEG to form the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance (AQA) in 2000. AQA's board is not required to include representatives of any of the JMB universities, though it does have representatives from Universities UK . For replacement certificates, verification of results services or confirmation of results to third parties, former JMB students have to contact AQA. Examination board Malaysia The National Education Examinations Authority (NEEA; Chinese : 教育部教育考试院) under
196-573: Was founded by the Victoria University of Manchester , the University of Liverpool and the University of Leeds . The universities had been part of the same institution (the Victoria University ), but were in the process of de-merging. The universities set up the board to maintain a common entrance exam. The board allowed its exams to be taken by local schools, which was to become its main business. The University of Sheffield joined
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