title changed: BTECS are CANCELLED!!! (PLEASE read)

If anything it should be the A-level and GCSE students who were meant to sit their exams this year but didn't who should be classified as "unqualified idiots" (using your words). This year will always be remembered as the year whereby no official A-level or GCSE exams were sat and I hope that employers take this into account when hiring these groups of people (if I was an employer I would certainly not hire these groups of people (depending on what job I have))

You can use my words if you want. However, OP would be an 'unqualified idiot' if they cheated and suffered the consequences. The A-level and GCSE students aren't in control of their situation so although they may be unqualified, I don't see why they would be idiots.

I'm sure employers will take into account. I'm glad that you will likely never be an employer, because I would expect an employer to hire based on the skills an applicant can bring to the business (which can be assesed in many ways), not the grades they were given by somebody else due to a situation out of their hands.

Agreed Tbh I would hire based on skill but if needed narrow down the applicants then these groups of people will be the first ones to be turned away (but it depends)

Yeah...don't worry, you'll never end up in the position of making these decisions.

1- everyone knows that predicted grades are usually on the more generous side, so having btec students excluded from this is unfair
2- our peers can just relax and have a 6-7 month holiday whilst we have to keep working
3- it is significantly more difficult to complete work to a high level with just a powerpoint and emailing your teacher, plus it's demotivating knowing everyone else is doing nothing, plus its distracting with the world going through such a crisis atm, and also many people have to do more hours at work since we all mostly work in retail.

You can use my words if you want. However, OP would be an 'unqualified idiot' if they cheated and suffered the consequences. The A-level and GCSE students aren't in control of their situation so although they may be unqualified, I don't see why they would be idiots.

I'm sure employers will take into account. I'm glad that you will likely never be an employer, because I would expect an employer to hire based on the skills an applicant can bring to the business (which can be assesed in many ways), not the grades they were given by somebody else due to a situation out of their hands.

However, as BTECS have now been cancelled, you have one less reason to complain about people having to do work whilst others don't Please never sign on.

Still gonna complain hope that Y12's get special consideration next year (even if just means lowering grade boundaries). Year 13's get to "relax" meanwhile I've gotta self-teach myself a lot of content... But oh well

I don’t think BTECs are actually cancelled entirely, they’ve stopped exams but you can still do your coursework to get an overall grade if your in year 12?

What if you’re in year 13? I’m still getting set coursework lol, I don’t think it’s cancelled, op has just misunderstood

@Hazelly When was the last time your teacher set u work?

@hazelly The only thing i'm thinking now is that most people were set work before the announcements came. maybe teachers will wait till next week to update us if we gotta do work or not.