as far as I know, they're phasing out tests (not even exams) but tests in college "to give a fairer indication of a pupils abilities and progress"

ie they say it's not fair if someone passes all their course work and everything but fails an exam at the end of the year. Total bollocks IMO. Coursework, essays etc... are easy I mean the only people Ive known to fail course work in the 3 years since Ive left school are the people who didnt do it, handed it in late and dropped marks or didnt start till the night before it was due.

Getting 6+ weeks to read up on somethign and do a coupla thousand words doesn't show an in depth knowledge of the subject, an exam covering everything at least goes much further to achieving that.

Anyways, point being, as soon as they phase out tests in colleges I really can't see it being a much bigger step before school exams are gone.