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The article presents a study on the effects of changing from marking on paper to marking on-screen in Cambridge. It focuses on marking assessment judgments and considers issues of assessor consistency when marking essays in different modes. Moreover, he discusses the results of the study which include the variance across modes to be non-significant and the reliability of the marking was not affected by the difference in mode.

Discusses the move of Cambridge University in England to abolish its entrance examination in favor of the British government's world-class tests. Significance of the abolition taken in the recruitment of state-school pupils; Role of the world class test to the government package of A-level reforms; Introduction of the Sixth Term Examination Papers to universities.