The younger kids are not just given extra marks because they're younger. It was explained to me on this forum recently that the scores for each child in each month are plotted on a graph i.e. all Sept born kids, all Oct born kids. So you end up with 12 graphs with a curve on. If the curves are all the same, no marks are changed. But if the graph for one month (say June) is noticeably "out" to the other graphs, then those children get a slight uplift. But if all children in June score well, then there is no uplift.
It does make me wince a little though that parents of older children think that it's fair that a younger child is not assisted. Their older child has probably, talked, read, calculated for many months (up to a year!!) more than the younger children, so how would it be fair to mark them all exactly the same?
You can tell I'm the parent of a younger child
