Gcse deflated grades

[Zizzagaaaaahttss]

Feeling absolutely deflated today

All I've heard all day long is the amount of best ever amazing grades that the gcse year has been awarded.

My dd wanted to take maths, chemistry and psychology at 6th form

Her predicted grade 7 maths ( mocks came in at 8) - became a 6 even though her maths teacher said it was a certainty in January
Her 7/6 science is now a 6/5
English Lang is down a grade and geography is down 2 grades.

She now can't take maths or chemistry (or any science) a level because her grades aren't high enough.

Last week it was wall to wall doom that a levels students missed out.
Today .... silence..... and I cant even blame an algorithm and we can't appeal either.

I was watching a girl on gmb this morning opening her results saying ooooh grade 6 maths wasn't expecting that, I think i'll do a levels now

My child sat Maths and Chemistry and got a mark higher in both from what his CAGs were. All on his own. Unfinished curriculum. School offered no tuition support at all. None after 23 March Lock-down and none after 18 August results day. They were even so nefarious as to included a form in their results envelope requiring students to pay for Autumn exams. They were free.
Hope some kids and parents out there have had some luck with appeals/complaints. It’s just so wrong for these tens of thousands of kids.

Agree with dilworth1234. Our daughter took her English language with absolutely no support or learning from her school since March last year, although we did not have to pay for the exam. She got 2 grades higher than the grade they gave her and she was only a few marks off the next grade. I can’t begin to imagine what she might have been able to achieve if her school and teachers had been remotely interested in supporting, encouraging and helping her. The school marked her down from an 8 to a 4 and the head teacher refused to discuss the grading with me until the day of the deadline to appeal, by then it was too late to appeal. When I looked across all her other exam results the mean was taken, apart from English. The school have so far been unable to give any evidence or reason for the grade they gave.
I’m pleased she has a “real” result although I believe it could have been better with the right support. Many children will have both done very well out of the CAGs and equally suffered down grades. Sadly it looks as though children will this year go through the same, even though it’s been proved time and time again that teachers get the grades wrong.
I’ve sadly lost a lot of trust in teachers and the head teacher who are working to statistics rather than looking at individuals.
I’ve taken my daughter out of the school she was at and she is flourishing at her new school!

That is so good to hear! My son sat Business and got 2 grades higher - 6 to an 8 - the grade we were expecting. I was told the school had inflated his grades for 2 years as he was getting high grades and they could not dispute evidence we had. Refused appeal and said true grade was a 6 - he has proved them.wrong!

My daughters grades were deflated in 3 subjects, she re sat one and passed with two grades higher, again no help since March.

Their mocks were is October 2019 so they still had many months of teaching, this year they are doing a series of mini tests and mocks in March and not using the algorithm.

The 2020 schools who deflated grades expecting the algorithm (this is exactly what out HT told us they did - she argued it’s what they were told to do) to lift them really failed the students.

It’s incredibly annoying.

My DS sat four - he went from a 5 and 3 6's to 3 7's and an 8. No help or encouragement from school who told him his grades were good and he should just move on to A Levels. He was so disappointed and angry back in August. He hasn't stopped smiling since he got his real results which were exactly what he had expected the first time. I am so proud of his hard work and determination to prove himself - school haven't mentioned it.

It is incredibly annoying and so wrong for all those thousands of students who got lower grades, could not do the A Levels they wanted or get into their college of choice, all because their schools wrongly graded them. It could really affect their futures. And rather then be honest and admit they messed up, they tried to cover up and lied. Appalling to think heads and senior teachers can do this to students. I don't know how they sleep at night.

Hi Everyone,

Just a heads up about the possibility your school will continue to record the old/wrong grade if your child took the exams in the Autumn. The new grade is supposed to completely replace the old one. The government said so. You can get an updated report from exam boards too.

With their solution, a whole lot could and probably will go wrong.

This from my school:

"Thank you again for sending over the mobile app screenshots to support our investigations into x's CAGs appearing on the Edulink account.

Having looked into this further, I can now provide you with an explanation as to why the grades are there. As x was awarded those grades last summer, we are unable to delete them in their entirety from our internal data system. The grade 'exists' and we have to keep it on our records as such. However, as x has since been awarded a new grade, only the new grade will be reported to employers, Universities etc. The new grade is the grade that will staff refer to in their setting of targets and analysis of x's progress.

All staff have been reminded again of x's new grade and have been asked to double check their data reportings are consistent with the new grade awarded."

2020 Students - Class Action Lawsuit Against DfEd & Ofqual.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/families-to-sue-over-wrong-marks-given-by-teachers-g2qjjc8x7

The sad thing about all this, ending up in the courts, is that if Mr Johnson had acted promptly in March 2020 and introduced restrictions/closed borders before the Cheltenham Festival and Athletico Madrid's visit, exams probably could have been held in the summer albeit delayed until late June. No alternative option is really the same or fair, as it takes no account of those who have exam nerves or do silly things such as the answer to another question.