{"id":17947,"date":"2025-03-29T20:40:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T20:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/train\/?p=17947"},"modified":"2025-03-30T21:26:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T20:26:51","slug":"changes-to-exam-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/train\/changes-to-exam-reporting\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes to RSGB Exam Question Reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The RSGB has introduced a new process for reporting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/train\/rsgb-exam-questions\/\">flawed exam questions<\/a>, and the new process excludes tutors from raising challenges on behalf of their students.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/train\/wp-content\/uploads\/question-reporting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17948\" src=\"https:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/train\/wp-content\/uploads\/question-reporting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"578\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/train\/wp-content\/uploads\/question-reporting.jpg 578w, https:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/train\/wp-content\/uploads\/question-reporting-575x443.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 578px) 100vw, 578px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Reactions from social media:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><em>A great idea, very poorly executed. Why would they block those best placed to find errors from reporting them? Ridiculous!<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Probably hoping that a new entrant is less likely to challenge\/query a question, whereas a tutor giving up their time to help newcomers to the hobby is highly likely to be correct if they raise a dispute.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Seems a bit shady\u2026\u2026or is it stupid or just an oversight?<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Excluding trainers &amp; clubs from helping in sorting out this mess is a disaster.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Once again, they seem paranoid about opening their processes to scrutiny.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>The Announcement<\/h3>\n<p>The official announcement can be found here: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2025\/03\/28\/the-rsgb-has-published-new-forms-for-exam-question-queries\/\">New forms for exam question challenges and queries<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>The Forms<\/h3>\n<p>The two new forms can be found here: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/clubs-training\/forms\/exam-challenges-and-queries\/\">Exam challenges and queries<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>The Background<\/h3>\n<p>Essex Ham launched its &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/train\/report-question\/\">report a question<\/a>&#8221; form in May 2024. It&#8217;s great that just 10 months later, RSGB decided to adopt the same model. Ours, of course, is open to all &#8211; both students and tutors<\/p>\n<h3>Flawed Questions?<\/h3>\n<p>Take a look at a few of our favourites, reported by tutors and candidates. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/train\/rsgb-exam-questions\/\"><strong>RSGB Questions: Students Beware!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Comments?<\/h3>\n<p>Any thoughts on this RSGB announcement and process change? Let us know in the comments below&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RSGB has introduced a new process for reporting flawed exam questions, and the new process excludes tutors from raising challenges on behalf of their students. Reactions from social media: A great idea, very poorly executed. Why would they block those best placed to find errors from reporting them? Ridiculous! Probably hoping that a new&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/train\/changes-to-exam-reporting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Changes to RSGB Exam Question Reporting&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exams"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/train\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/train\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/train\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/train\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/train\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17947"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/train\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17954,"href":"https:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/train\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17947\/revisions\/17954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/train\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/train\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/train\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/train\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}