Do you think receiving Teacher Assessed Grades will impact your future?

I’m extremely worried about one grade that will impact my whole university place. Apart from that, I guess a lot of us are in the same boat when it comes to employment so hopefully it won’t make a massive difference on how an employer views us.

There’s been a lot of talk around teacher assessed grades (TAG’s) and the potential impact they could have on you as students. How are you feeling about this?

Over 50% of you in a recent poll said you didn’t feel TAG’s were fair due to the system in place that produces them. Do you think that the process being unfair will impact you in the future?

Maybe you’re worried about the impact it may have on your uni application through grade inflation, or what a potential employer will think when they see you achieved your grades in 2021 if grades are especially high this year. Maybe you’re not worried at all and you think that the way grades were assessed this year will actually be better for you?

Let us know your thoughts now!

My GCSE's were always going to be very strong, but now that grades have been so inflated, the all 9s I worked so so hard for ( and would have gotten had i taken exams ) were lowered to give me 3 eights and 7 9s instead, and now everyone else has those grades. It sucks that the strongest area of my application has been reduced in value, even if it's still good

As someone who took GCSEs in 2019 it was disheartening last year when I saw my old schools results. I only got 4 9s but it was the second highest number in my school, last year there was at least half a dozen student who got 6 or more 9s. It made me feel like I hadn’t really achieved anything at all.

There’s been a lot of talk around teacher assessed grades (TAG’s) and the potential impact they could have on you as students. How are you feeling about this?

Over 50% of you in a recent poll said you didn’t feel TAG’s were fair due to the system in place that produces them. Do you think that the process being unfair will impact you in the future?

Maybe you’re worried about the impact it may have on your uni application through grade inflation, or what a potential employer will think when they see you achieved your grades in 2021 if grades are especially high this year. Maybe you’re not worried at all and you think that the way grades were assessed this year will actually be better for you?

Let us know your thoughts now!

Hi, I just finished A-Level exams, and I wanted to know how lenient do you think teachers would be in giving out grades?

This depends on your school and what they have decided to do to assess your grade. Statistically, the figures show that Teacher Assessed grades are more likely to award you with a higher mark than ordinary standardised grades. But that is likely accounting for the fact that grading this year (like last year) does not follow a normal distribution model. So essentially, this year you're being graded for your performance alone, rather than being graded against the performance of everyone else.