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Exam board sorry for delay to Sats results in England

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One school leaders' union says it now wants "cast-iron assurances" the final results will be accurate.

In a connection confirming the delay, a spokesperson for Pearson apologised "unreservedly" for the disruption, and thanked its markers who had been affected by the method problems.

One marker, who spoke to the BBC via Your Voice successful June and asked not to beryllium named, said interior deadlines had consistently been pushed back.

She said the method issues meant she had stayed up until 01:00 immoderate nights "just trying to support up".

She said she continued marking due to the fact that students and parents were expecting to get their results successful July and she did not privation to spot them disappointed.

She besides raised concerns astir the accuracy of the marking process.

"I marked 1 question that I remembered I had marked before, but the strategy had assigned the people I gave to a antithetic question," she said.

"I reported this, but it raises concerns astir whether errors similar this could interaction last results."

Pearson said it had a program to implicit the remaining work, with teams "working astir the timepiece to present the remaining pupil data".

"Our precedence is ensuring that each schoolhouse and pupil person implicit and accurate results," a spokesperson said.

Whiteman said it was "not the archetypal clip schools person faced delays", adding that "once the existent issues person been addressed it is captious that they are decently investigated to guarantee it is the last".

"Pupils, parents and schools person been severely fto down," helium said.

"Given the fiasco astir the marking and instrumentality of results, we erstwhile again question the full intent of these outdated tests."

Additional reporting by Vanessa Clarke

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