[Basit2010]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ous-years.html

Don't entirely understand the article, they are basically trying to cap how many people pass every year, If you didn't do well in your year 6 SATs does this mean it will be difficult or easier to do well in your GCSE's?

[ccm.blake95]

If you did well in the last set of exams you did, it'll be easier to do well in these exams.
If you didn't do well, they're screwing you over :/

This seems totally unfair, if they base it on a set of exams where you had a bad day, or were ill, or had extenuating circumstances, then you fail all of your future exams... How is that ok??

[Observatory]

They are saying that the difficulty of GCSEs as a whole will be adjusted according to how everyone did in SATs, not your GCSEs adjusted according to how well you did in SATs.

[ccm.blake95]

In which case, if you're an overachiever in an unfortunately bad year, or an underachiever in a really clever year, how is that fair?

[SpiggyTopes]

The grade boundaries won't be fixed, just the pass rate for an A etc. People last year (myself included) didn't have it tough with respect to pass rates so you won't this year, it will be equally as easy for you to do well.