As a teacher of 30+ years experience (mainly Senior Maths but now asked to again teach Physics) I remain concerned by the fact that schools continue to offer the same tests and assignments at the same time each year.

Test instruments that have passed through the Panels successfully are highly regarded and rather than risk prejudicing student rankings are used time and again.

This process in turn inadvertently constrains the breadth of topics taught as teachers, who are always short of time, know what topics to focus on to optimize their students results and “appear” to complete their Work Program in good faith.

This situation might only be described as Teaching to the Test. The wider effect is students have narrower breadth of Syllabus coverage.

Some type of External Testing regime, based on current syllabus documents,  would go a long way to remediating this problem.