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What is known about this 'gaining evidence' for GCSEs and A level grades?

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Pebbles574 · 26/03/2020 12:02

Had a very vague letter from the school about how the Year 13s should keep making notes and doing past papers as this will be 'valuable evidence' to support their proposed grades from teachers.

I haven't been able to find answers to a number of specific questions about all of this:

  • if a student has ACTUALLY completed coursework already (e.g. Design/ Drama etc) will this be externally marked and the mark used or will the teacher now just look at it/ assess it?
  • Are schools meant to me keeping them doing revision-style activities all the way until when they were meant to go on study leave?
  • what is the schools' cut-off point for these grade recommendations?

Any teachers with inside knowledge?

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mumsneedwine · 26/03/2020 12:31

As a teacher, we have no idea. Guidelines were promised in April. At the moment most of us are carrying on collecting stuff in case we can use it. But we don't know. Everyone is making it up as we go along.

KingscoteStaff · 26/03/2020 12:30

Both of mine have been told to carry on working, as if they do end up wanting to resit in September, they'll be very rusty if they haven't worked from March 23rd to results day on July the whateverth.

FlyingPandas · 26/03/2020 12:30

Not a teacher but from reading other threads I just don’t think anyone knows, including teachers, including the DfE in all honesty!

What is clear though (just reading the y11 thread) is that different schools are handling things very differently for the exam cohort - many saying they have all they need for grade predictions so no more work set, others still setting work/assessments and data gathering.

I’m presuming that in your case the school are wanting as much back up justification as possible in case their suggested student grades are challenged by Ofqual? Depending on schools’ recording of data justification I would imagine that some are more twitchy than others at having plenty of back up.