To be worried? Re mock exams coronavirus

[Poppyanddaisy55]

Dd today at her school has been told by 2 teachers that if her school has to close because of coronavirus the mock exam results will be counted as the real thing.
I mean will this actually happen? She is now absolutely stressed as fuck (more than usual) and I'm pissed off.

No, it is extremely not true.

There is no standardisation between schools of mocks. There is no way they can be the basis for the actual award.

There's a long thread in the topic about potential effect on GCSEs and A levels

What the actual fuck is up with random teachers telling kids this? It has come from nothing. No one with any authority over exams has said this. It’s not going to happen.

YABU not to post in the CV topic and to not read the long thread already running about this

Ok I'm sorry I will consider myself bollocked. I haven't seen any instructions on what I should and shouldn't post. My apologies

Did she definitely hear it from a teacher or did another friend tell her that a teacher said it? I'm only asking because I can't imagine teachers saying this as fact.
Head on over to CV topic and there is a thread going there that may put your mind at ease (although I haven't read it for the last few days).
No need to tell the op off for posting here, not everyone knows there is a coronavirus topic!

My son was ill during mocks and only did a 1/4 of them so they can’t use his. Two of the other kids were sat in the hallway to do their mocks to catch up they orettt much did it together.
It was not done to a proper standard so no way they can use them. I would imagine they would go by predicted grades and what each teacher thinks

If something goes wrong during a public exam - like a fire - schools can ask the boards to consider the predicted grades which have already been submitted to the board and many schools like to keep hold of mocks as potential supporting evidence, so I think that’s where this has come from.

We don’t submit predicted grades to exam boards. Haven’t done for years.

The only time this has ever happened in my 20 years is a girl who was rushed to hospital on the morning of one exam - she was given her mock grade (but no evidence asked for) and was around for the rest of her exams - with a very unexpected baby!

Dsis had some of her mock results counted as her real GCSE results as she was so incredibly unwell that she was hospitalised for 4 months, and some exams she had to sit later in the year when she returned for the next academic year--it's only in very extreme circumstances that they do that and would not do it for an entire cohort for a brief closure. If the school does close over the exam period, it'll be extra revision time for her.

JCQ guidelines are clear. If you sit at least 25% of the assessment (so 1 out of 3 maths papers for example), they will use that to give you a grade.

If you don’t sit any components, they CANNOT award you a grade.