Schools Minister tells Brighton conference he’d already seen the SATS test question he got wrong
Mr Gibb said that he had discussed sample test questions at length with his advisers, questioning whether they were too tough for 11-year-olds.
They included the question about whether after was a preposition or a subordinating conjunction in a particular sentence.
Mr Gibb told the Brighton College Education Conference: “I looked at the very question I was asked on Radio 4 and discussed it with my advisers which is why I was surprised I got it wrong.”
Nick Gibb
Children absorb information, he said, and would be able to answer questions about spelling, punctuation and grammar if they were taught well.
Ian Jungius
Mr Gibb said that local authorities had not been swift enough to tackle failure in the past although he conceded that some academies had performed poorly or failed.
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Where does all the money come from all these talking shops when BHCC have to close public toilet.
All of these live in they’re own private little world like Cameron and co