Examination board

Not to be confused with board examination.

An examination board (or exam board) is an organization that sets examinations, is responsible for marking them, and distributes the results. Some are run by governmental entities; some are run as not-for-profit organizations.

List of national examination boards

Malaysia

• Examinations in Malaysia are set by Examination Syndicate (Lembaga Peperiksaan Malaysia) Archived 2015-07-01 at the Wayback Machine under the supervision of Malaysia's Ministry of Education.
• The Examination Syndicate providing Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) examination locally for all the states in Malaysia.
• SPM certificate will be taken by all Malaysian students at the age of 17 and in Form 5 except those are studying in some international schools
• SPM is equivalent to Cambridge O-Level Certificate.
• The Malaysian Examination Council (MPM) is providing Sijil Tinggi Pelajaran Malaysia (STPM) examination to all Form 6 students in Malaysia.
• STPM certificate is equivalent to Cambridge A-Level Certificate.
• Malaysian Examination Council (MPM) also providing Malaysian English University Test (MUET) for all the Malaysian students to maintain the students' English proficiency level.
• All Malaysian students must take MUET examination and their achievement level is one of the main criteria for them to pursue their studies in any degree program under government and private universities in Malaysia.

Australia

• Examinations in Australia are set by individual state authorities.
• In Victoria, examinations are set by the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority.
• In South Australia, examinations are set by the SACE Board of SA, which also administers the South Australian Matriculation in certain schools in Malaysia and China.
• In New South Wales, examinations are set by the New South Wales Education Standards Authority.

China

The National Education Examinations Authority (NEEA; Chinese: 教育部教育考试院) under the Ministry of Education is mainly responsible for major education examinations, including overseas examination and gaokao in Mainland China.

Hong Kong

• Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority is responsible for the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education Examination.

Philippines

• The Professional Regulation Commission sets exams in the Philippines.

Poland

There is one state run central system of examination boards in Poland called "Centralna Komisja Egzaminacyjna" ("Central Examination Board") established within the new legislation on education issued by Polish parliament in 1998. The central board has eight regional branches called "Okręgowa Komisja Egzaminacyjna" (OKE) - "Regional Examination Board". All primary and secondary schools and other education institutions in a region are served by the regional OKE. Universities are not part of that system. It is allowed by law to sit an exam in other regional board than the home one, but practically it does not happen.

Each OKE is responsible for the content and administration of the entrance tests to primary schools, Gymnasiums and secondary schools in accordance to the Ministry of Education annual guidelines. Final secondary school examination called Matura (analogous to A Levels) is prepared each year by the Ministry of Education and administered by regional examiners, who are recruited, trained and paid by regional OKE boards. Each regional OKE has an authority to issue an official certificate of an examination.

Nr OKE Voivodeship 1. OKE Gdańsk Pomeranian Kuyavian–Pomeranian 2. OKE Jaworzno Silesian 3. OKE Kraków Lesser Poland Subcarpathian Lublin 4. OKE Łomża Podlaskie Warmian–Masurian 5. OKE Łódź Łódź Świętokrzyskie 6. OKE Poznań Greater Poland West Pomeranian Lubusz 7. OKE Warsaw Masovian 8. OKE Wrocław Lower Silesian Opole

United Kingdom

See also: Examination boards in the United Kingdom

England, Wales and Northern Ireland

The members of this list all provide A-Level and GCSE qualifications:

• AQA
• CCEA
• Edexcel
• OCR
• WJEC
• CIE

Traditionally, schools were restricted to one of a large number of regional examination boards, but now they can use any (though few outside Northern Ireland choose to use the Belfast-based CCEA). Furthermore, a number of boards have merged making a much lower number overall.

Scotland

• SQA (including Advanced Highers, Highers and Nationals)

Singapore

• Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board, which is a statutory board under the Ministry of Education (MOE) of Singapore.

United States

Primary and secondary school tests are generally administered by the state boards of education - or in the case of private schools, private organizations whose affiliations align with those of the school. Tertiary school entrance qualifications and vocational qualifications are provided by other organizations.

• College Board - administers the SAT Reasoning Test, SAT Subject Tests, PSAT/NMSQT, Advanced Placement exams, and College Level Examination Program, developed by the Educational Testing Service
• ACT, Inc - administers the American College Test
• Educational Testing Service - administers the Graduate Record Examination and Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)
• Law School Admission Council - administers the Law School Admission Test
• Association of American Medical Colleges - administers the Medical College Admission Test
• National Association of State Boards of Accountancy - administers the Uniform Certified Public Accountant Examination, developed and maintained by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

Caribbean

• Caribbean Examinations Council (administers various examinations across the Anglophone Caribbean)

Africa

West Africa

Anglophone countries in West Africa: Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and the Gambia

• West African Examinations Council (administers the WASSCE)

Cameroon

• Cameroon GCE Board (administers the GCE O and A Levels)

Zambia

• Examinations Council of Zambia - sets and conduct examinations and, award certificates to successful candidates.

Zimbabwe

• Zimbabwe School Examinations Council - administers the ZIMSEC GCE Ordinary Level and ZIMSEC GCE Advanced Level Examinations.

Bangladesh

• 9 general education Boards organize 4 board examinations PEC (class 5), JSC (class 8), SSC (secondary) & HSC (higher secondary) under the control of Ministry of Education all over the country. There are two more alternative education boards in Bangladesh, namely the Bangladesh Madrasah Education Board and the Bangladesh Technical Education Board.
• Students are admitted in colleges based on the result of SSC.
• After HSC students get admitted into universities by qualifying admission tests.
• Cambridge Assessment International Education
• British Council Bangladesh
• Edexcel
• International Baccalaureate

India

In India various state,national and international public & private examination authority or board conducts secondary and higher secondary examination called as Board examination in India which are held during the period from February to May every year .The following examination conducts the exam are

• Central Board of Secondary Education(CBSE)
• National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS)
• National Testing Agency conducts various National entrance exam and national level college or university level exam

• Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations( ICSE - ISC)
• International Baccalaureate (International Education Board)
• Cambridge Assessment International Education (IGCSE)( International public education board)
• State examination are conducted by various state education ministry Government. In their respective states. There are around 50 state examination authorities in India

Ireland

In Ireland, exams are run through one main examination board called the State Examinations Commission (SEC). This exam board provides examinations for secondary school level students, including Junior Certificate/Junior Cycle for students aged 14-16 and Leaving Certificate/Leaving Cert Applied (LCA) examinations for students aged 17-19.

Examinations from the SEC are available in both the Irish and English languages.

The Irish SEC Leaving Certificate is also examined at The International School of the Martyrs (ISM) in Tripoli, Libya. The examination in Libya is available to students in Arabic.