To be struggling to take this years GCSE grades seriously

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It’s no the dcs fault but I do think the GCSE results this year will be taken with a pinch of salt. I do feel sorry the the students who would have actually got a bunch of 8 and 9s if they’d sat the actual tests as it seems more than ever are getting those grades this year and it does make you wonder. We’re they not meant to be for the very top percentage of students? I’ve spoken to a parent who is pleased the marks were centre assessed as he thinks his ds probably wouldn’t have passed his maths and English if he’d actually sat them,

Appalling thread - some of you should be ashamed of yourselves.

Congratulations and well done to all the pupils who received their results this week - good or not so good, you have shown resilience, strength and maturity beyond your years which will set you up for good stead in the future.

As you will see from this thread, unfortunately throughout life you will come across people who are bitter and jealous of your success and will try to bring you down - rise above.

I wish you well in whichever path you take next

That is odd HPFA I thought maybe they had added Welsh and Northern Ireland stats for their equivalent top grades but it is still not almost a third - if my maths is correct that would be 29.6%. . I agree with you and pp, that the stats/press coverage is misleading - and for the info upthread that made me see how reporting a 40% surge feeds into that.

29. 7 even (Northern Ireland 37.1 England 25.9 Wales 26. Divide 89/3)

@Bonkersblond we have the same DS

I feel my DS's grades were largely fair based on the effort he had put in up to the point of the schools closing (very little). They were absolutely not based on his predicted grades and I've got no doubt he would've got better grades had he sat the exams.

Trying to use this as a life lesson to ensure he works harder at A levels.

@kkneat

Are you going to appeal or speak to the school? I ask because my situation, and a couple of other people I have spoken to, is similar. Xx

Not all kids benefited DS bright but lazy lad at Grammar School but not really working at full capacity up until year End year 10/11 then he really picked up his pace and his competitiveness kicked in.

He got mainly 2 definite 9’s in mocks and high 8’s and 2 x 7’s. Got told at parents eve work ethic excellent, bright lad and capable of getting any grade he wanted in exams In all bar 2 subjects. He has suffered under the marking scheme as school seem to have applied their own algorithm. In his results he only got 1 x 9, and one of his 8’s was downgraded to a 7. It seems kids seem to have faired better or worse depending on how strictly or not their individual schools applied the grading. Their seems no recourse to appeal and as he is sitting 4 A levels including further maths we would prefer him to concentrate on that rather than messing about with resits which may never happen.

Yes the media do okay fast and loose with statistics.

It's very much like our local rag "Covid 19 cases doubled in a week"

Well they did. They went from 1 case 1 week and 2 the next.

They do have a terrible habit that 24.9% will be almost more than a quarter and 25.1% becomes nearly a third.

We heard today that one of DP's relatives only passed 2 GCSEs, at grade 5. If these grades are inflated, I dread to think how bad they would have been in the normal scheme of things.

I'm gobsmacked, the child always struck me as pretty bright. They're brilliant at art, too, but art wasn't among the subjects passed.

@Wotsitsarecheesy my DS os exactly the same he was extremely down and disappointed on Thursday. Like your DS he was marked down and feels really down about it. Goodness only knows what he would have ended up with if he had gone through the harsh moderation of his school then the Ofqual algorithm on top.

@paddyclampitt exactly the same experience here ,

Thank you @rubystiles

@ThatsNotMyNameItsTooFluffy

That is odd HPFA I thought maybe they had added Welsh and Northern Ireland stats for their equivalent top grades but it is still not almost a third - if my maths is correct that would be 29.6%. . I agree with you and pp, that the stats/press coverage is misleading - and for the info upthread that made me see how reporting a 40% surge feeds into that.

And if they had added in Northern Ireland that would make it even more misleading since the NI figure (and it's for A- A*) was 37%.1% but that was a 5.7% rise. Yet the Times article says the one third % was a rise from one fifth.

I wouldn't mind betting that half this fuss about "undeserveing" pupils getting into sixth form comes from a few schools who use high exclusionary grades to boost their A-Level results and may now - shock horror - have to rely on their supposedly superior teaching.

www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/northern-ireland-gcse-grades-rise-as-students-benefit-from-teachers-predictions-1.4334888