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Examination board

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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.

List of national examination boards

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Malaysia

  • Examinations in Malaysia are set by Examination Syndicate (Lembaga Peperiksaan Malaysia) Archived 2015-07-01 at the Wayback Machine under the supervision of Malaysia's Ministry of Education.
  • The Examination Syndicate providing Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) examination locally for all the states in Malaysia.
  • SPM certificate will be taken by all Malaysian students at the age of 17 and in Form 5 except those are studying in some international schools
  • SPM is equivalent to Cambridge O-Level Certificate.
  • The Malaysian Examination Council (MPM) is providing Sijil Tinggi Pelajaran Malaysia (STPM) examination to all Form 6 students in Malaysia.
  • STPM certificate is equivalent to Cambridge A-Level Certificate.
  • Malaysian Examination Council (MPM) also providing Malaysian English University Test (MUET) for all the Malaysian students to maintain the students' English proficiency level.
  • All Malaysian students must take MUET examination and their achievement level is one of the main criteria for them to pursue their studies in any degree program under government and private universities in Malaysia.

Australia

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China

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The National Education Examinations Authority (NEEA; Chinese: 教育部教育考试院) under the Ministry of Education is mainly responsible for major education examinations, including overseas examination and gaokao in Mainland China.

Hong Kong

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Philippines

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Poland

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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.[2] 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 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) 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.

Nr OKE Voivodeship
1. OKE Gdańsk Pomeranian
Kuyavian–Pomeranian
2. OKE Jaworzno Silesian
3. OKE Kraków Lesser Poland
Subcarpathian
Lublin
4. OKE Łomża Podlaskie
Warmian–Masurian
5. OKE Łódź Łódź
Świętokrzyskie
6. OKE Poznań Greater Poland
West Pomeranian
Lubusz
7. OKE Warsaw Masovian
8. OKE Wrocław Lower Silesian
Opole

United Kingdom

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England, Wales and Northern Ireland

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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 the Belfast-based CCEA). Furthermore, a number of boards have merged making a much lower number overall.

Scotland

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Singapore

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United States

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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.

Caribbean

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Africa

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West Africa

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Anglophone countries in West Africa: Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and the Gambia
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Cameroon
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Zambia
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Zimbabwe
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Bangladesh

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India

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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 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 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.

References

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  1. ^ "Key mInformation". SACE Board of SA. Archived from the original on 5 April 2013. Retrieved 9 October 2012.
  2. ^ "About us". Central Examination Board official web site (in Polish). Archived from the original on 19 April 2013. Retrieved 17 April 2013.