Schools caught cheating in exams to boost rankings with teachers altering answers

Schools are cheating the exam system to boost their league table performance, investigators have found. Teachers have altered exam answers, inflated GCSE marks and even told pupils to copy coursework from textbooks. Cheating: Teachers have altered exam answers and inflated GCSE marks as schools cheat the exam system to boost their league table performance, investigators have claimed One headmaster who was caught altering Sats papers said he was later told by another head: ‘The only thing you did wrong was you got caught.’ In 2013, 37 state primary schools had Sats results annulled for maladministration and there were 511 reports of alleged cheating. Education author Warwick Mansell told the programme: ‘I think it is a bigger problem than many people are aware of.’ In one case, King’s Farm school in Gravesend, Kent, allowed a child to rewrite answers after an exam finished. Analysis: In 2013, 37 state primary schools had Sats results annulled for maladministration and there were 511 reports of alleged cheating And Portslade Aldridge Community Academy in Brighton signed pupils off the school roll so it could boost its headline exam results.