To wonder what will happen if exams are impacted by Corona

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Starting to think they aren’t going to want halls filled with 100s of kids if it spreads more.

What will happen to GCSE and A level students if they can’t take their exams?

woodchuck, you aren't a teacher, are you?

woodchuck, you aren't a teacher, are you?

I'm not a schoolteacher. I teach university students and some of that is online, particularly for postgrads.

Mocks would be a disaster here as they haven't finished the curriculum yet for some subjects and mocks were sat at end of November. There would be an unfair advantage for those pupils who do GCSEs over three years whereas a lot of children still do there's over two years.

They’ll have been tested on the parts of the curriculum they have covered, or am I mistaken? How is it not an advantage to be tested on a far smaller part of the overall course?

Thought so, woodchuck .

As a teacher I would be expected to be sat at my laptop from 9.00pm - 4.00pm which are the teaching hours (not inc registration) in my school. For KS4 and 5 I will be expected to be in email contact with my classes. Them sending me work and me marking and feeding back via email. I can set work for all key stages using our online platform.

For KS3 I would imagine I would set project work.

I know that my line manager would be in constant contact with a lot of admin to do and I would also expect to be in contact with my team. Even when I have had a snow day I was expected to be at my laptop to help pupils and liaise my line manager.

Anyone who thinks schools closing will mean a doss for teachers haven’t met my school! oh and my 6 year old DD attend my school too so If we shut I would have to be there to look after her too. I don’t imagine much time off tbh.

@thisismytimetoshone they were given last years GCSE paper in some subjects but hadn't been taught parts of it. Also some pupils had already done some of the papers with tutors so this children got far higher scores than the others in the class

Wrong thread

Does anyone think this may impact Ofsted inspections?

Anyone who thinks schools closing will mean a doss for teachers haven’t met my school!

Good grief . Why is it that in any thread that mentions education teachers always have to jump to the self defence .No one has said it would be a doss for teachers if schools closed. This thread is about whether it would be possible for pupils to sit their exams. I think it would be if they could be spread out and teachers invigilated as well as the usual invigilators. If they were invigilating they couldn't be expected to sit at a laptop for 9 am to 4 pm. And while you would have to look after your child not everybody would be in that position. Some people have older children or no children at all and some people will expect to share childcare with their DH so would be available at least some of the time.

We live abroad with schools currently closed and online learning in place. I was told by a teacher that when students are registered for iGCSE exams a predicted grade has to be entered. This is the grade used in extenuating circumstances when exams can’t be sat. I would presume the school needs to be able to justify those predicted grades which could be checked on a random basis. I was assured the school mock grade is not what goes to the exam board.

That’ for IGCSE only. It doesn’t happen for GCSE.

Here’s AQA confirming that they don’t use school produced grades in extenuating circumstances.

What they do in normal circumstances is a bit irrelevant. Who knows what they may decide to do it a whole year can't do exams.

I wonder how much use GCSEs will be in a zombie apocalypse anyway?

But woodchuck if they wanted schools to come up with evidence-based predicted grades for secure transmission to exam boards, they’d have been issuing instructions by now.

I wonder how much use GCSEs will be in a zombie apocalypse anyway

Depends what its in

I did o level geography years ago and we learnt about artisian wells

I dont think that they get taught that now...that would be useful

Woodwork...deffo useful

But woodchuck if they wanted schools to come up with evidence-based predicted grades for secure transmission to exam boards, they’d have been issuing instructions by now.

You would think but who knows what they will do.

Here’s AQA confirming that they don’t use school produced grades in extenuating circumstances

Plenty of time for them to change their minds before August. Anyway it's not down to them, it's whether sixth forms and universities decide to accept them.

Bloody Gove messing things up again by insisting on terminal exams for everything

You really can't pin this on him.

Gove has basically ruined my child’s life A slight exaggeration I feel.

However, he is to blame for my ds' school massively downgrading MFL in his secondary school because they had to fit in so much Maths, English and science.

Plenty of time for them to change their minds before August

There really isn’t. If that’s a route they’re considering, we’d be seeing action taken now. Instead we’re being told to just keep preparing kids for exams as normal.

Every child to sit exams be tested? Those in the clear sit the exam together in school halls. Those testing positive would have to wait until they are in the clear and then take a similar but different exam in late summer?

Anyway it's not down to them, it's whether sixth forms and universities decide to accept them.

That’s a different issue. That would be assuming a group of students without qualifications. The exam boards’ job is to make sure the kids get their qualifications.

They could do temperature testing I suppose.