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**** them year 10's for pushing the grade boundaries high!

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Seriously stop whining you haven't even got your results yet.
When I was in year 10 and did early exams I didn't have any choice in the matter, the teachers decide. Not year 10s fault if they work hard to do well.

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Reply 21

2016_GCSE

Original post by lucabrasi98

Looks like someone didn't see A level maths boundaries

They are rarely the same most the time.

Reply 22

Starlight15

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It's embarrassing that the year 10s are smarter than you

Reply 23

2016_GCSE

Original post by Starlight15

It's embarrassing that the year 10s are smarter than you

Not all of them....

Reply 24

ad4m

Original post by 2016_GCSE

Schools trying to get the well and ready Year 10's in for this year as they have all the resources for this spec like past papers and all that jazz but this pushes down on Year 11 border line students!

They should have just waited till Year 11 as the mark scheme will be better adjusted for the first year on the New specification.

Exam boards are trying to remove the borderline students. They only want to give an A* to those who have produced a reasonable amount of work at A* standard. I have heard many complaints about the setting of A* in Edexcel Maths. However, the new boundary means that those who get an A* can do A* maths. Take 2015 for example, you cannot say that 45 marks of the 200 was solely A*, can you? I am aware that standard deviation must be considered and the A* boundary set below this, however, breakdowns will most likely suggest that the average A* candidate got a mark in the 180s.

Reply 25

ad4m

Original post by 2016_GCSE

Made a .Gov petition as Ofqual is part of the government.

No use, all grades have been assigned and statistics created. A petition didn't change the grade boundaries for one paper with a hard 1 mark question, instead increased them.

Reply 26

2016_GCSE

Original post by ad4m

No use, all grades have been assigned and statistics created. A petition didn't change the grade boundaries for one paper with a hard 1 mark question, instead increased them.

It's worth a damn shot, High grade year 10's unbalance things for Year 11 border line students making things harder for this group mostly.

Reply 27

ad4m

Original post by 2016_GCSE

It's worth a damn shot, High grade year 10's unbalance things for Year 11 border line students making things harder for this group mostly.

It's not the year 10s that made the GB high - it is the borderline students. Exam boards do not want to give borderline students a grade A* if they only got the marks for one A* question.

Reply 28

_gcx

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Original post by 2016_GCSE

SIGN THIS PETITION TO INFORM OFQUAL
(GOV DEPARTMENT) YEAR 10 AND BELOW'S GRADED PAPERS SHOULD BE REVOKED AND THEN HAVE GRADE BOUNDARIES REMADE FOR YEAR 11 ONLY!:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/165622/sponsors/TLs4BsdTVI35Wc0onJH

You do know there is literally nothing that can be done at this point? The grade boundaries are final, and that's that. Anyway, that would be unfair for those entered early, it's not their fault as I stated earlier.

Reply 29

2016_GCSE

Original post by ad4m

It's not the year 10s that made the GB high - it is the borderline students. Exam boards do not want to give borderline students a grade A* if they only got the marks for one A* question.

But I hear they take average scores and calculate grade boundaries from that.

So having A / A* Year 10's sitting papers won't be helping the grade boundaries for borderline students.

Reply 30

2016_GCSE

Original post by _gcx

Sure it's there fault. They are working hard in a exam they most likely get to do again in Year 11 and all they do is push things up for the current year 11 in turn making it harder for borderline students.

If there result's got voided then grade boundaries would fall due to less A/A* students sitting papers. A lot of school's place D/C student's on higher papers as the score needed tends to be less but competition from high graded Year 10's makes things harder on higher!

Reply 31

ad4m

Original post by 2016_GCSE

But I hear they take average scores and calculate grade boundaries from that.

So having A / A* Year 10's sitting papers won't be helping the grade boundaries for borderline students.

Average score for A* will be around 180 this year. People with a mark more than 10 marks lower than that simply shouldn't deserve it. Borderline people just haven't been lucky this year.

Reply 32

username1986099

No, no, no. They weren't allowed to early enter us for Maths because we asked and they said it wasn't possible. So, quit your whining and deal with the high boundaries: they're not even that high. You can get an A* by dropping like 30 marks....

Reply 33

2016_GCSE

Original post by danielwinstanley

Funny, my maths teacher informed me of the potential of schools actually entering early. Could have been the exam board that rejected the decisions.

Reply 34

_gcx

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Original post by 2016_GCSE

So, it's their fault for working hard? I seriously don't get what you're trying to say.

The grade boundaries cannot/will not be changed, they have been decided for a while now, and are 100% final.

Reply 35

ad4m

Original post by 2016_GCSE

Funny, my maths teacher informed me of the potential of schools actually entering early. Could have been the exam board that rejected the decisions.

Teachers have told me that early entry could be possible, but would not count and those in year 10 would need to sit 9-1 anyway so no point.

Reply 36

2016_GCSE

Original post by _gcx

So, it's their fault for working hard? I seriously don't get what you're trying to say.

The grade boundaries cannot/will not be changed, they have been decided for a while now, and are 100% final.

Well they can do it at Year 11 like most students. They should be waiting until there year gets to do the exams rather than jumping the gun and pushing grade boundaries up in Year 10 for Year 11's....