Doubts over new A-level grading

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Re: Doubts over new A-level grading

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How come even some teachers were defending this flawed methodology?
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Making uni admissions fairer: Labour would scrap predicted grades.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ons-fairer" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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My DD1 is due to take her GSCEs next year.

So we've had A levels this year, GCSE next year, plus DS2 should be taking his 11+ exam this year. Birmingham and Warwickshire use same exam, Birmingham are going ahead as planned on 12th September, but Warks are delaying and have not given us a date yet!

The stress is never ending :lol:
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Re: Doubts over new A-level grading

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tiffinboys wrote:Making uni admissions fairer: Labour would scrap predicted grades.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ons-fairer" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

That article is from a year ago.
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Re: Doubts over new A-level grading

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And that’s What Labour proposed to do to make admissions fairer. With possible delay in next year’s Exams, possibly this is the time to rethink about uni admissions as well.
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Re: Doubts over new A-level grading

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To date neither my DS who got A level results or my DD who got GCSE have come across anyone at either of their schools who had CAG grades that were higher than the algorithm grades.
They had friends at other schools who had over half the grades increased by CAGS.
Nothing feels fair about this whole process.
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Re: Doubts over new A-level grading

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tiffinboys wrote:How come even some teachers were defending this flawed methodology?
The original plan was fine - it was when they 'tweaked' it for small cohorts and small subject entries that it went wrong.

Results do not improve 12% in a year and some schools clearly gave inflated grades - so unfair on the schools that acted professionally.

I still don't see how you think exams could have run in May - it was difficult enough being open for students of key workers and virtually all invigilators were obeying instructions to shield.
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In another local grammar, some children with A prediction for UCAS were actually given CAGs of C or U. A mfl subject is particularly under scrutiny at that school.
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Assuming zero grade inflation at my children’s schools other students must have had more than 12% to compensate for that.
Pupils at a small local private school have done really well out of this and some got places through clearing for degrees they never expected to be able to apply for.
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Re: Doubts over new A-level grading

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When the schools were closed, couldn’t exams have been conducted in empty schools and available staff? Exams could have been delayed a little, as being proposed for 2021.

Yes, needed bit of forward thinking and planning. What a mess lot of children have been put through. So much injustice around. Seems only the private schools hugely benefitted out of this fiasco and there seems to have been no checks on them.
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