The taking of the exam certainly doesn't mean that the paper will be marked or a grade awarded; it's clear from the story that the school will do its best to put forward the paper and get it accepted by the exam board, but sitting the paper is a stage, not the end result.
If you are planning to miss papers, they certainly do take a strict view - when I was doing my A levels in the late 1990s, my English history paper and physical geography II papers (different exam boards) were scheduled on the same morning. We had to be very closely supervised between taking the 3 hour history paper in the morning, and the delayed 3 hour geography paper in the afternoon - we had supervised packed lunches in the middle of the playing field, and escorted to use a loo which was closed to everyone else (for example).
Mainly, however, I remember that doing two three-hour exams in one day was pretty hard work!
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Date: 2014-01-24 08:26 pm (UTC)If you are planning to miss papers, they certainly do take a strict view - when I was doing my A levels in the late 1990s, my English history paper and physical geography II papers (different exam boards) were scheduled on the same morning. We had to be very closely supervised between taking the 3 hour history paper in the morning, and the delayed 3 hour geography paper in the afternoon - we had supervised packed lunches in the middle of the playing field, and escorted to use a loo which was closed to everyone else (for example).
Mainly, however, I remember that doing two three-hour exams in one day was pretty hard work!