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

Completing the course under these conditions won’t give me the grade I deserve.

Why? Because you can't motivate yourself to work or because you don't have access to the resources you need? In which case I suggest being proactive about it and contacting your teachers/school.

If you stop trying despite things being a bit harder for you, then you definitely will be getting the grade you deserve.

Why? Because you can't motivate yourself to work or because you don't have access to the resources you need? In which case I suggest being proactive about it and contacting your teachers/school.

If you stop trying despite things being a bit harder for you, then you definitely will be getting the grade you deserve.

If you dont mind me asking are you currently studying A levels/GCSE or Btec?

Dude I already told you

No you didn't you said you replied your reasons to somebody else. Nonetheless, I foung the paragraph you wrote. So I'll reply to a few key points.

"It's very demotivating that most students can relax for 6-7 months whereas we have to actually earn our grade."
Welcome to the real world kid, life isn't fair. You actually have to earn what you deserve while some other students have their grade given to them. Some of these people are going to feel awful about the fact they can't improve their grades. You have control of your grades.

"Some units have mandatory practicals that need to be completed in order to write the assignment."
Well obviously if you can't do the practical aspects, I assume things will be changed round. If they aren't that's something to take up wth your teacher.

"There's hundreds of other reasons that I can't think of off the top of my head because they don't necessarily relate to me."
Don't try to speak on the behalf of others. Some people will put their heads down and deal with situation.

"No one is going to be able to perform as well as they would have under normal circumstances."
That's not true. There will be plenty of people who see an obstacle appear in the distance and will plan a new way round it. Plenty of students will still get the grades they would have otherwise, or better. It happens all the time in situations just as extreme. Some people unfortunately won't due to the circumstances, and others won't because they are lazy unmotivated sods playing the vitim game.

"If the government has decided to award predicted grades to everyone, this should be standardised and applied to everyone."
Once again, be grateful you have control of your grades. Unless you were predicted higher than you were ever going to achieve.

Sounds cool. Btw i understand ur point and i agree to a certain degree. Also i got a message from a teacher, looks like we're still conpleting assignments.

You BTECs need to calm the hell down, you don’t work HALF as hard as actual A-Level students.

Please check the title of the thread, Btecs have actually been cancelled. More details in the link provided from Edexcel.

Just think, when you look at your results, you'll see the result of the effort you put in despite things not going as you thought they would. If you want it, do your best to get it. At least then you will deserve it.

The fact that this hasn't been mentioned to you is astounding after reading all of your replies... You can still sit the exam if you're not happy with the grade you got from your teacher. That's the part which is infuriating. Stop playing the "at least you earned it" card when a level students get a free pass and if they don't like what they get, still get to sit their exams, while we get limited support (because guess what? You actually do need support when you're doing units you've never done before) only get one shot at it, if we fail it's basically over and have to essentially take it on the chin or for some of us get knocked straight out of our chances of getting into our desired unis... But I would expect someone like you to understand with your a level superiority complex.

Resits bring a whole load of problems and there will still be A-levels students who will go through exactly the same thing if they fail the resits. I never said A-levels were better than BTECs, maybe you're trying to project your insecurities on me. I said be grateful that your path is less complicated than those who have to sit A-levels.

The fact that this hasn't been mentioned to you is astounding after reading all of your replies... You can still sit the exam if you're not happy with the grade you got from your teacher. That's the part which is infuriating. Stop playing the "at least you earned it" card when a level students get a free pass and if they don't like what they get, still get to sit their exams, while we get limited support (because guess what? You actually do need support when you're doing units you've never done before) only get one shot at it, if we fail it's basically over and have to essentially take it on the chin or for some of us get knocked straight out of our chances of getting into our desired unis... But I would expect someone like you to understand with your a level superiority complex.

“We have decided to pause all BTEC standards verification activity.”

Does this mean coursework has stopped? Or are they still referring to exams?

An update from Pearson:


https://qualifications.pearson.com/content/demo/en/qualifications/new-apprenticeships/news.news.html?article=%2Fcontent%2Fdemo%2Fen%2Fnews-policy%2Fqualifications%2Fgeneral-news%2Fbtec-assessment-update

omfg why cant they just say it clearly.....

That article only talks about externap assesments, not internal

That article only talks about externap assesments, not internal

Thing is thought they referred to BTEC standards verification activity which I'm pretty sure is select BTEC work on units getting sent off to Pearson to be checked - which is generally coursework.