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Coronavirus: Government outlines how GCSE and A-level exam results will be awarded
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How will my grade be decided?
For this summer’s exams only, your grade will be decided by your teachers. Your teachers will be asked to submit two bits of evidence.
First, they will be asked to estimate the grade you would have received had you taken all the exams and completed any other assessed work.
Secondly, teachers are then being asked to rank each student within each grade. So if 6 students have been given an A in a class, the teacher will then need to rank the 6 students who have been given an A.
They will be issued guidance on the sorts of things to take into account when reaching these judgements. The decision will be holistic and cover many aspects of work including classwork and non-examined assessment (coursework) . Mock exam results can be part of this but they will need to be judged in the context of overall performance and will not be the decisive factor.
Teachers are being urged to be ‘cautious’ about taking to consideration any work completed since the lockdown.
Teachers judgments will also be subject to statistical checks.
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(Old) 21st March Update: (Source)
1. Did exams need to be cancelled?
2. What will happen to those who have already done some non-exam assessment?
3. How will you address the fact that students from disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to have their grades under-predicted?
4. Will all students get their predicted grade?
5. Will schools be using mock exam results as a barometer for results – and is this fair on students as they did not know at the time these would be used as their final mark?
6. Will the past performance of the school be taken into account when devising the calculated grade?
7. Is this an entirely new system?
8. How will schools/colleges cope with the burden of putting on an atypical exam season?
9. Will universities/colleges/sixth forms accept these calculated grades?
10. What if I am unhappy with my grade?
11. Will there be an opportunity to take exams this year if a student is unhappy with their grade?
12. What about private candidates or home educated students?
13. Can private centres run GCSEs/A levels if they chose to do so?
14. Does this mean every exam in every module in every subject being cancelled, or will a limited number go ahead at GCSE and/or A level?
15. What about vocational and technical qualifications?
16. Will parents be required to educate their children while they are off school?
17. What if have started my coursework but it is not finished?
18. What will young people with university offers do?
19. Do universities need to start making unconditional offers / should I accept an unconditional offer now that exams are cancelled?
20. If I already have an unconditional offer, does that remain?
21. If I take the exam option, will I still be able to go to university this year?
22. Are iGCSEs and the International Baccalaureate also cancelled?
23. How will colleges, sixth-forms, universities cope with the fact that these students will have missed out on some of their education?
24. Might the exams be reinstated if the coronavirus (COVID-19) is not as bad as expected?
1. Did exams need to be cancelled?
2. What will happen to those who have already done some non-exam assessment?
3. How will you address the fact that students from disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to have their grades under-predicted?
4. Will all students get their predicted grade?
5. Will schools be using mock exam results as a barometer for results – and is this fair on students as they did not know at the time these would be used as their final mark?
6. Will the past performance of the school be taken into account when devising the calculated grade?
7. Is this an entirely new system?
8. How will schools/colleges cope with the burden of putting on an atypical exam season?
9. Will universities/colleges/sixth forms accept these calculated grades?
10. What if I am unhappy with my grade?
11. Will there be an opportunity to take exams this year if a student is unhappy with their grade?
12. What about private candidates or home educated students?
13. Can private centres run GCSEs/A levels if they chose to do so?
14. Does this mean every exam in every module in every subject being cancelled, or will a limited number go ahead at GCSE and/or A level?
15. What about vocational and technical qualifications?
16. Will parents be required to educate their children while they are off school?
17. What if have started my coursework but it is not finished?
18. What will young people with university offers do?
19. Do universities need to start making unconditional offers / should I accept an unconditional offer now that exams are cancelled?
20. If I already have an unconditional offer, does that remain?
21. If I take the exam option, will I still be able to go to university this year?
22. Are iGCSEs and the International Baccalaureate also cancelled?
23. How will colleges, sixth-forms, universities cope with the fact that these students will have missed out on some of their education?
24. Might the exams be reinstated if the coronavirus (COVID-19) is not as bad as expected?
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I think this is a decent way and I can't speak for anybody else but I think my grades will be fair.
I have to get 6 grade 7s to get into my sixth form. Even if I'm given lower than I expected/wanted, if I get into sixth form, I'm Gucci. I don't want to sit them, lol
I have to get 6 grade 7s to get into my sixth form. Even if I'm given lower than I expected/wanted, if I get into sixth form, I'm Gucci. I don't want to sit them, lol
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Heya, just quoting in everyone who posted in the previous thread so you find this 
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What's gonna happen with gap year students doing A-Levels? Some of them don't even have predicted grades, and there's no way they would use their in-course assessment from 2 years back from secondary school...
They didn't even mention the private students with no teachers, what's happening with them?
They didn't even mention the private students with no teachers, what's happening with them?
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am really hoping i get the grades to get into uni
was a grade off my predicted in all subjects in mocks so am hoping it'll be okay
was a grade off my predicted in all subjects in mocks so am hoping it'll be okay
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(Original post by Obolinda)
I think this is a decent way and I can't speak for anybody else but I think my grades will be fair.
I have to get 6 grade 7s to get into my sixth form. Even if I'm given lower than I expected/wanted, if I get into sixth form, I'm Gucci. I don't want to sit them, lol
I think this is a decent way and I can't speak for anybody else but I think my grades will be fair.
I have to get 6 grade 7s to get into my sixth form. Even if I'm given lower than I expected/wanted, if I get into sixth form, I'm Gucci. I don't want to sit them, lol
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Nothing about external candidates who don't have a teacher. At least mention that they're being considered in all this instead of leaving them completely in limbo.
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This is bull crap. they should close schools but let us do our exams when the day comes.
And also im resitting, and I haven't talked to teachers since last year, how would they predict what I'll get
And also im resitting, and I haven't talked to teachers since last year, how would they predict what I'll get
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unfair im retaking english language gcse and i need a 6 for medicine, my ****ing teacher predicted a 3 for english literature and i got a 7, how the hell will this work?
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(Original post by Evil Homer)
Update 20th March 2020: Ofqual update (Source) : Ofqual will develop and set out a process that will provide a calculated grade to each student which reflects their performances as fairly as possible, and will work with the exam boards to ensure this is consistently applied for all students. The exam boards will be asking teachers, who know their students well, to submit their judgement about the grade that they believe the student would have received if exams had gone ahead.
To produce this, teachers will take into account a range of evidence and data including performance on mock exams and non-exam assessment – clear guidance on how to do this fairly and robustly this will be provided to schools and colleges. The exam boards will then combine this information with other relevant data, including prior attainment, and use this information to produce a calculated grade for each student, which will be a best assessment of the work they have put in. Ofqual will be discussing with teachers'representative before finalising an approach.
The aim is to provide these calculated grades to students before the end of July. In terms of a permanent record, the grades will be indistinguishable from those provided in other years. We will also aim to ensure that the distribution of grades follows a similar pattern to that in other years, so that this year’s students do not face a systematic disadvantage as a consequence of these extraordinary circumstances.
There will also be an option to sit an exam early in the next academic year for students who wish to and University representatives have confirmed that they expect universities to be flexible and do all they can to support students and ensure they can progress to higher education.
So, what do you make of the news? How are you feeling now a initial plan has been laid out.
Do you think this is the fairest way for students to receive their grades considering whats going on at the moment? Do you trust that you will recieve the grades that you deserve?
Update 20th March 2020: Ofqual update (Source) : Ofqual will develop and set out a process that will provide a calculated grade to each student which reflects their performances as fairly as possible, and will work with the exam boards to ensure this is consistently applied for all students. The exam boards will be asking teachers, who know their students well, to submit their judgement about the grade that they believe the student would have received if exams had gone ahead.
To produce this, teachers will take into account a range of evidence and data including performance on mock exams and non-exam assessment – clear guidance on how to do this fairly and robustly this will be provided to schools and colleges. The exam boards will then combine this information with other relevant data, including prior attainment, and use this information to produce a calculated grade for each student, which will be a best assessment of the work they have put in. Ofqual will be discussing with teachers'representative before finalising an approach.
The aim is to provide these calculated grades to students before the end of July. In terms of a permanent record, the grades will be indistinguishable from those provided in other years. We will also aim to ensure that the distribution of grades follows a similar pattern to that in other years, so that this year’s students do not face a systematic disadvantage as a consequence of these extraordinary circumstances.
There will also be an option to sit an exam early in the next academic year for students who wish to and University representatives have confirmed that they expect universities to be flexible and do all they can to support students and ensure they can progress to higher education.
So, what do you make of the news? How are you feeling now a initial plan has been laid out.
Do you think this is the fairest way for students to receive their grades considering whats going on at the moment? Do you trust that you will recieve the grades that you deserve?
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Its not a decent way for many because a lot of students don't put their all in mocks and tbh nothing is fair even if they take into account mocks where grades are decent/high. i know a lot of people who got a* in mocks but scrapped a b in the exams.
Its not a decent way for many because a lot of students don't put their all in mocks and tbh nothing is fair even if they take into account mocks where grades are decent/high. i know a lot of people who got a* in mocks but scrapped a b in the exams.
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I'm so screwed, I didn't put in as much effort in mini tests and in my mocks I did so bad. Even if my teacher thinks I can do better, my grades don't show. I wanna cry, everything always goes downhill for me.
I'm so screwed, I didn't put in as much effort in mini tests and in my mocks I did so bad. Even if my teacher thinks I can do better, my grades don't show. I wanna cry, everything always goes downhill for me.
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Well my mum was watching the news and told me that the government might not open schools for two years?
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What’s going to happen to BTEC students though?
What’s going to happen to BTEC students though?
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works for me, but it's still a little vague - are there going to be more internal tests/mocks? do teachers have to use tests we've already sat?
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