To be worried that this new year 12s are going to find A’levels a struggle

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DD2 has done GCSEs this year and luckily come out with some excellent grades and is starting at college next week for A’levels. DD1 did GCSEs in 2019. She spent weeks revising the syllabuses etc and came out with grades similar to DD2. She found the step up to A’levels a challenge despite I feel having had a much more thorough grasp of the subjects than DD2 who didn’t have to revise for everything, just short tests.
AIBU to think the government have set our dc up for a really tough time with their A’levels following their approach to GCSEs this year?

For those whose excellent grades were based on short tests then yes, they might well struggle.
DS2 sat lengthy tests under exam conditions for each subject over two weeks in May just as DS1 had two years earlier before Covid. No test and teach at his school like my nephew. No second go like my friends DD.
He did brilliantly although had high target grades from the start.
I think he'll be fine and the increased experience of remote and independant learning will stand him in good stead going forward.

@cptartapp

For those whose excellent grades were based on short tests then yes, they might well struggle. DS2 sat lengthy tests under exam conditions for each subject over two weeks in May just as DS1 had two years earlier before Covid. No test and teach at his school like my nephew. No second go like my friends DD. He did brilliantly although had high target grades from the start. I think he'll be fine and the increased experience of remote and independant learning will stand him in good stead going forward.

That's how I feel really. DD did get excellent grades, but they were the grades that she expected to get anyway and she worked bloody hard for them. If anything, harder than she would have had to work in a normal year because they had to do so much independently and yet they still had full on exams at the end of it.

Well done to the dc that did full tests it must have been very hard after the 18 months they’ve had (it’s stressful enough in a normal year).