Ofqual recommends students take mock exams every term for 2022 contingency plans

Me too. I was in year 11 in 2020 and I knew all the content inside out.... like we started revising from December, many people did and it's just GCSE, not hard, there are people self-studying GCSEs.

We should keep the linear system (i.e. everyone takes the same papers at the same time) and re-introduce termly proper exams like they used to in the modular days 4 exam windows per A-level, and we should bring in GPA, A-level tiered grades have turned into a total shambles, lets face it A-levels have become a qualification not worth the paper they are written on the last couple of years. (I would also cap resits to 1 paper per A-level).

you do realise that you may have to sit even more exams if the exams are cancelled right? Look at the threads from 2021 cohort students. I personally am somewhat mentally prepared this time if the exams get cancelled but trust me you don't want to go through what pupils last year had to go through.

We should keep the linear system (i.e. everyone takes the same papers at the same time) and re-introduce termly proper exams like they used to in the modular days 4 exam windows per A-level, and we should bring in GPA, A-level tiered grades have turned into a total shambles, lets face it A-levels have become a qualification not worth the paper they are written on the last couple of years. (I would also cap resits to 1 paper per A-level).

I don't think you're aware of how modular A levels worked. There were exams in June and January [not termly] and in later years you were restricted on retakes.

Only some schools did it fairly - some gave predicted without justification. The exam board should have sampled the work by asking for a random group of students work. We had to do this when there was coursework ...

In all honesty, I want completely normal exams to go ahead. I want the satisfaction of knowing I've earned my A Level grades, which was taken away from us at GCSE. A Levels are a process of learning and building on knowledge for 2 years so that by the time the real exams happen, you're ready. I'm not ready yet and neither are most people. Mocks are great for preparation and are a solid contingency plan but honestly I don't think there's a need to cancel them again, unless there is another lockdown where we are out of school, in which case I think normal school should go ahead for years 11 and 13 only. This is of course just my personal opinion, but if year 13's exams are cancelled again, we'll be going to university with absolutely no external exam experience, and we're going to get looked at like mugs in the future. We need actual exams.

They should have moderated all work (no algorithm, just simply having teachers justify their predictions).

A sample chosen by the board should have been OK [that's how coursework was moderated] and then if there are issues ask for it all.

in my opinion extra exams may be useful but may also add unnecessary stress on to students. they should be available but optional if you want to get a larger view on how you progress over time however you could complete past papers as an alternative but that would have to be in your own time..

A-levels used to have January A-level exams & year 12 exams, and universities do exams every semester with much shorter revision windows, I don’t think stress and workload is an issue at all. Schools typically only do like 5 hours max teaching per day.

I actually think more exams pre-June year 13 should result in less stress at the end.

(I also think academic stress isn’t s bad thing, it just tends to build your capacity to push further with bigger challenges).

I think that it's the fact that you have to learn all of the content+extra exams that's the issue. In the rest of the UK and before when you did A-level exams you were pretty much assessed on 1 module at a time in a paper, now in England you are assessed on several modules/pretty much all of the content in 1 paper. I think that's having shorter revision Windows and more exams is an issue now whereas under the modular exams system I personally don't see it as an issue as You're only being assessed on 1 module at a time so less to revise. Those of you doing A-levels in NI and Wales, consider yourself somewhat luckier than us English Peeps for this reason.

I don’t view this as an issue tbh, the interim papers will probably be scaled to how far through the syllabus at the time an exam is taken.

i just think that people who keep saying we didnt do our gcses in 2020 are just looking fr a fight ur acting as if it was our fault and even this year exams shouldnt go ahead im already stressed out cause of the mocks we have to do i do mocks every half term but i also do fortnightly asessments
then knowing u have to prepare fr 9 papers in may/june withpout knowing ur content inside out
how do u think i feel
how do u think the rest of the country's yr 13 feel who are going to finfih their content in march/april due to last lockdowns delay
also even f they do finish in jan/ feb their content majority of the content will need to be reatught to students cause they dont knw it fromm last year and on top of that theyll have to reteach a level content once theyve properely understood AS