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Interesting. Okay.

I turn to Pam Duncan-Glancy.

You have a number of past papers on the SQA website, and they tell people how to gain marks.

Are all those relevant for people who sat the exams this summer? Are you confident, as you sit here in front of the committee today, that the information that is published on your website for learners and teachers on what you allocate marks for is accurate?

Okay.

Yes, but the report that you say defends everything that the SQA has done says on page 33:

“the explain question for Migration and Empire needing a name to get a mark—this is not the same as previous years.”

In the same box, it says:

“The marking standard was much higher than previous years.”

That is on page 33 of your own report.

Yes, I know, but they are the markers you listened to in forming the report. Are you saying that even the markers you quote in your report are wrong?

Okay.

What would bar you from having a wholly independent review?

But an independent review could speak to people who have not been spoken to during the compilation of the SQA’s review, so it could come up with slightly different recommendations. All that I am asking is whether that is something that you and the cabinet secretary will consider in the light of the evidence that we have received and the discussion that the committee has had today. Will you at least consider that?

So you will not consider that. It is a straightforward question, to which I need an answer.