More optional questions so that there's less content that you need to learn; and to account for the fact different schools teach the course in different orders, etc.

Reply 11

Horse girl

I think my photography exam has already been cancelled- instead we are only having coursework 🧐

Reply 12

epicnm

Original post by RogerOxon

Let's hope not, given that it has been demonstrated that public pressure leads to awarding undeservedly high grades.

Or an incapable government awarding undeservedly low grades to students coming from a low socioeconomic background

Reply 13

RogerOxon

Original post by epicnm

Or an incapable government awarding undeservedly low grades to students coming from a low socioeconomic background

I don't believe that. The government didn't write the correction algorithm either.

Reply 14

Joinedup

Original post by RogerOxon

Let's hope not, given that it has been demonstrated that public pressure leads to awarding undeservedly high grades.

Well an algorithm that decided that no one from certain schools was going to get an A* regardless of how clever they are or how hard they worked might have had a bit of a problem tbh.

Imo should have rented out the largest rooms available and done the exams in shifts if necessary.

Reply 15

RogerOxon

Original post by jduxie4414

More optional questions so that there's less content that you need to learn; and to account for the fact different schools teach the course in different orders, etc.

Wouldn't that devalue the qualifications, and cause (yet more) issues for universities?

Reply 16

epicnm

Original post by RogerOxon

I don't believe that. The government didn't write the correction algorithm either.

What don’t you believe?

Reply 17

username5390248

It's weird though people think the algorithm worked because it was based off past data, when classes under the size of (5 or 15 i can't remember lol) got their teacher predicted grades and everyone else got grades altered by the algorithm. I think usually private schools have smaller class sizes so were less likely to be affected by downgrading so this was blatant classism from our government

Reply 18

RogerOxon

Original post by Joinedup

Agreed. However, the corrected grades were, on average, fairer - just look at the percentage of A* and A grades awarded by CAGs. It's a mess.

IMO, exams should have been held, or public pressure to switch to CAGs resisted. There were problems with the corrected grades, for which a system of individual assessment should have been put in place. Instead, we've just over-awarded for schools with optimistic predicted grades, encouraging this disruptive behaviour.

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Reply 19

RogerOxon

Original post by epicnm

What don’t you believe?

What I quoted:

Original post by epicnm

Or an incapable government awarding undeservedly low grades to students coming from a low socioeconomic background

As I said, the government didn't award grades (they didn't design the correction algorithm), and I don't believe that students "from a low socioeconomic background" got "undeservedly low grades".

The main issue appeared to be the lack of correction of the grades of small cohorts, which makes sense mathematically, but gave the impression, to those that don't understand statistics, of bias.