Dull and uninspiring exam text books

Another example in the school of "I bet you didn't know that you knew this already" thinking.

Exam boards that encourage their chief examiners to write a book about the subject end up with an uninspiring and dull book that is designed to get teachers to teach solely to the test.

Further that having a chief examiner write a book can be seen as anti-competitive and a possible restraint of trade - strong stuff indeed.

We collectively need to make sure that Functional Skills does not end up like this. Certainly the learning materials that we produce at Guroo try to avoid this trap,