Seriously.
There are so many posters getting upset because their DC was predicted an 8 and got a 6, predicted a 5 and got a 4 etc etc
Predicted grades are, at best, educated guesswork. The new system of numbers is so new that any teacher who claims to be confident in predicting an outcome is either over-confident or lying. The FFT predictions that are used are based on SATS and not reliable in individual cases.
There is not a large enough statistical dataset to make predictions, especially for those students who did the new KS2 (Marks out of 120) - this cohort have not done new GCSEs yet so we cannot correlate 115 in English at age 11 to a GCSE number grade.
Teachers predict because they are told to. It's an estimate only. 25+ years of teaching and I can't say for certain what grade someone will get. My estimates are usually close, but not watertight.
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Predicted grades are a load of balls
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YoureAllABunchOfBastards · 24/08/2019 10:26
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