Mr. Aidan Farrell:

Feedback comes to us in a number of ways in terms of the examination event. The first is that we have the 60,000 scripts. We had 60,000 scripts for English last year and so on for the other subjects taken by candidates, so we know in a sense how they have responded to the examination, where they have scored well and where they have scored poorly. If there was a question that we believed would work well in eliciting the knowledge or skills we were looking for that did not perform as well as we would have wished, we have that evidence in front of us. We engage with the subject associations, which represent all the teachers of the subject and who are hearing the feedback from their students. There is a strong level of teacher support at individual school level and then advocacy on behalf of their students. That all filters up to us and it happens immediately after the examination.

We have broader levels of engagement in terms of school management, school leaders, teacher unions and so forth across the span of the year. One thing we are considering this year, and we have put it in our strategic statement, is engaging in some stakeholder feedback through some formal processes this year. I anticipate that happening on an ongoing basis but outside-----