GCSE grades predicted to fall

I personally think that the biggest issue is that they place people with no experience in education... in-charge of Education. The logic.

They've been in the UK education system haven't they? Who else would you put in charge, a pupil?

No, not a pupil. However, they attended school when O-Levels were being sat. It's completely different now. None of them have experience working in a school or teaching.

Don't attack my views with rude and aggressive comments. Thank you.

Don't be so sensitive. But genuinely, which other type of person would you propose?

I'll be as sensitive as I wish. Well, obviously someone who has actually had some experience in teaching or something similar. They just sit at a desk and make up no rules and propose new ideas without any regard for the affect jot has on the pupils in the UK purely because they assume it will work. Teachers and Students alike are angry with a lot of the unnecessary new reforms. Some are okay like the whole linear thing for GCSE but taking out January exams and coursework for some subjects is to the disadvantage of the pupils.

I'd say it's actually a good thing if you're at the more talented end. Takes out some of the borderline people and restores a bit of value to the top grades- in my day (2007) they handed A*'s like sweets so any toughening up should make those A*'s awarded seem a bit more valuable.

If that were true, why did communism come to an end? The ruling classes in Moscow had a nice life you're right, but the farmers out in the sticks... Not so much.


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Yes, I heard about that from my teachers when I was still at school. It's very frustrating and worrying to know. But if GCSE grades are predicted to fall, perhaps the grade boundaries will lower too.

LOL- GCSE grades are expected to fall every year due to the fact that exams are getting tougher every year.

It quite possibly will motivate borderline A* and A pupils in years to come as they will know the exams are toughening up. It would mean a definite improved education standard. HOWEVER I know it's no consolation for pupils who have been hit with the changes so abruptly this summer.

It is a political position and I would doubt many people in the education sector become politicans.

Coursework is meaningless and January exams are not normal in the history of UK education system.

It is consolation for those who get excellent grades as at least they'll know their efforts aren't devalued year by year by rampant grade inflation.

Plus there is also a lesson here for those who do worse than they feel they would have, which is in life aiming to do the bare minimum to achieve x outcome is a bad approach. At university I met quite a few people who always aimed to just about manage a 2.1, putting in the minimum effort they thought necessary. Yet for quite a few of them it backfired and they are now borderline unemployable. Trust me it's better to learn that lesson at GCSE where they don't matter hugely than later down the line.

I would argue that Coursework is not at all meaningless and who cares about "the history of the UK education system"?! It's about what is best for the UK students in that system.