A picture has been emerging tonight of schools up and down the country reporting English Language results severely down on predicted forecasts.
Biggest area of contention is - predictably - C/D borders.
Most schools are reporting an average 10% dip.
Reports say that AQA - amongst other boards - have, without any warning at all, raised grade boundaries significantly, thus affecting grades. Most students seem to have dropped a grade at least from their mock/predicted grades.
This will impact enormously on students and their FE paths; schools who face going into special measures when their A-C results dip and Ofsted swoop. More schools will be effectively forced to become academies.
Students are being used as political pawns and it absolutely STINKS. I am dreading handing out envelopes to those students tomorrow who will get D grades, which a year ago, with exactly the same work would have got Cs.
I am gutted.
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English GCSE results are badly down this year - NATIONALLY
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Itchyandscratchy · 22/08/2012 22:55
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