ASCL members are understandably concerned that their efforts to raise standards, year by year, may not be fully reflected in the awards made at GCSE. ASCL supports a mechanism to address this.

ASCL recognises that there needs to be a nationally representative sample for the test to be fully effective and ASCL agrees that schools, if selected, will need to allow a sample of pupils to take part in the test in order to achieve a fully representative sample.

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