SIGN MY E-PETITION--> “Different exams for private and state educated pupils”

Hi everyone,

I've created an e-petition in order to raise more awareness of the fact that private and state educated pupils are expected to take the same exams, even though the standards of education can be on two different ends of the spectrum. Ultimately private school pupils will perform better on exams and therefore have the opportunity to pick and choose where they want to attend university, whilst many kids from state schools will struggle to do well on the exams, and even if they do attend university, will end up with a mountain of debt after.

I realise that I have raised several different issues here, however my main point is that there is a gap between richer and poorer students and the government should be doing whatever they can to make it as small as possible. Did you know that 5 top independent schools send 2000 students to Oxbridge between them, each year?

Here's the link: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/130779

Thanks for the support, please pass on to as many people as possible!

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If private schools had harder exams and Unis considered both state students and private students equally then private schooling would become obsolete. I read somewhere that for students that achieved the same grades at A level for the same course, the state students got a point/grade higher in their degree for that course on average. So perhaps Unis would consider students from state school over private students when deciding who to give an offer to (assuming they have the same grades)

Hi everyone,

I've created an e-petition in order to raise more awareness of the fact that private and state educated pupils are expected to take the same exams, even though the standards of education can be on two different ends of the spectrum. Ultimately private school pupils will perform better on exams and therefore have the opportunity to pick and choose where they want to attend university, whilst many kids from state schools will struggle to do well on the exams, and even if they do attend university, will end up with a mountain of debt after.

I realise that I have raised several different issues here, however my main point is that there is a gap between richer and poorer students and the government should be doing whatever they can to make it as small as possible. Did you know that 5 top independent schools send 2000 students to Oxbridge between them, each year?

Here's the link: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/130779

Thanks for the support, please pass on to as many people as possible!

Hi everyone,

I've created an e-petition in order to raise more awareness of the fact that private and state educated pupils are expected to take the same exams, even though the standards of education can be on two different ends of the spectrum. Ultimately private school pupils will perform better on exams and therefore have the opportunity to pick and choose where they want to attend university, whilst many kids from state schools will struggle to do well on the exams, and even if they do attend university, will end up with a mountain of debt after.

I realise that I have raised several different issues here, however my main point is that there is a gap between richer and poorer students and the government should be doing whatever they can to make it as small as possible. Did you know that 5 top independent schools send 2000 students to Oxbridge between them, each year?

Here's the link: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/130779

Thanks for the support, please pass on to as many people as possible!

Hi everyone,

I've created an e-petition in order to raise more awareness of the fact that private and state educated pupils are expected to take the same exams, even though the standards of education can be on two different ends of the spectrum. Ultimately private school pupils will perform better on exams and therefore have the opportunity to pick and choose where they want to attend university, whilst many kids from state schools will struggle to do well on the exams, and even if they do attend university, will end up with a mountain of debt after.

I realise that I have raised several different issues here, however my main point is that there is a gap between richer and poorer students and the government should be doing whatever they can to make it as small as possible. Did you know that 5 top independent schools send 2000 students to Oxbridge between them, each year?

Here's the link: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/130779

Thanks for the support, please pass on to as many people as possible!