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Different A Level results according to which school one goes to

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BecksPen · 23/08/2020 22:28

We were happy for her daughter when she received her A*AA on Results Day as it was fairly in line with what she was expecting though all going well she could have received 2 A stars as predicted. That was until we heard that her peers from other schools have come away with unexpected A stars post U turn - 2 or 3. This makes me suspect that some schools really did submit more generous CAGs than others. Does anybody feel that their school has erred on the side of caution on the CAG front. How many people feel frustrated by this over inflation of A level results?

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Deardonkey · 23/08/2020 23:14

@Ginfordinner I’ve told DD that she has to try to hit the ground running as her school is part of a consortium.
All the other schools in the consortium have stated that they have record results this year and their biggest sixth forms ever. I imagine that the first few weeks or so is going to involve weeding out the weaker students (mostly from the other schools in the consortium) who maybe wouldn’t have got the results they had had they sat the exams.

GetThatHelmetOn · 23/08/2020 23:09

Everybody is going to find the new academic year difficult. Even if you got AAA but have not touched a book since March. The grades this year are nothing less than imaginary*

Ginfordinner · 23/08/2020 23:07

Won't the students with artificially inflated grades come a cropper when they start university/A levels, and find the courses much harder than they thought?

UniversityChallenged · 23/08/2020 23:03

I totally agree. I think my DC school assessed grades in accordance with the set rules and students got grades that were roughly in line with or below their predictions. Other schools have just gone to town with A/A* handed out freely. And, who can blame them really? I wish my DC school had done the same.

This article is interesting, it's written by a teacher who feels she was forced to downgrade results: inews.co.uk/opinion/gcse-a-level-results-2020-downgrade-students-algorithm-quit-teaching-582789

LadyCatStark · 23/08/2020 22:50

Of course some schools have. Our nearest private school has announced “the best results in a generation”. No shit, they chose them themselves 😂

Deardonkey · 23/08/2020 22:34

happened not happens

Deardonkey · 23/08/2020 22:33

Agree same happens with GCSES. The students at DDs school got results that were pretty much in-line with expectations, other schools in the area reported record grades.

PurpleDaisies · 23/08/2020 22:32

This makes me suspect that some schools really did submit more generous CAGs than others.

Er, are you really surprised by this?

FAQs · 23/08/2020 22:31

*has

FAQs · 23/08/2020 22:30

The same had happened with GCSEs

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