An anonymous reader writes "Examiners in the UK have been told to make science 'easier'. From next year 70% of the paper must consist of 'low demand' questions in the form of heterogeneous choice or similar answers. Currently this type of question makes up some 55% of the test. When the recent A level results were announced, with even more students in the UK getting A grades than ever before, educators were congratulating themselves on improved teaching. 'Jim Sinclair, the Joint Council for Qualifications director, emphatically denied that the changes would lead to a rise in the number achieving grade C - the top grade in the foot tier. Future results would depend on how the marks were allocated. Dr Sinclair added that the changes would help to stop delivering being turned off by science.' Even still, it's hard to see the benefit from future science students passing by guessing."

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