SIR – During my schooldays the teacher who taught a subject was responsible for the marking of examination papers.

If this method was reinstated there would be little or no waiting for the results of the tests.

So why has this tried and trusted method been abandoned and test papers put out to various companies who appear to be either losing or mislaying the examination papers, thus taking an age for the recipients to receive the results?

PETER ALCOCK,

Worcester.