The universities of Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool established the Joint Matriculation Board (JMB) and became public exam providers.
Here you can see AQA’s journey and how it and its predecessor boards have contributed to making exams accessible to all. Exams were used by universities and some professional bodies to select students. Secondary education and exams were only available to a small group, characterised by social class, age and gender, rather than ability.
At the start of the 20th century, the assessment system as we know it did not exist.
