Am I the only one that thinks it’s not a disadvantage that the exams have been cancelled?

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Ok so GCSE’s that would have taken place in may have been cancelled. People are saying that they will go by the children’s mock results instead. I don’t think that’s the case. My bet is the exams WILL take place but a lot later on. Boris said exams won’t be happening in may and June but he never said they won’t be happening AFTER that. I seriously think they will open the schools maybe in the summer holidays for a week and year 11s will go in and take there exams. To me that is an advantage. That’s a few more months of revising and getting better. For example a student that would of got a C in an exam can now master it and get a B. I’m just confused as to why people are beside themselves about this? It’s not the end of the world, the world may have stopped for a few months but it WILL start moving again and eveything will fall into place.

They’ve said there will be no exams this academic year and no league tables will be published. That they will makes sure grades are awarded which reflects the hard work of the kids and teachers.

That to me doesn’t suggest exams will be held in summer holidays.

Theres some comments from teachers on this thread www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/3852836-Exams

Yes you are the only one. Its a MASSIVE disadvantage.

Your reasoning is that you 'think' something might happen, so that's flawed too.

The academic year finished when school closes for the summer holidays. After that it’s not the academic year.

That’s not how they are graded now, do you have a child taking exams OP?

From memory my predicted GCSE grades were 3xA, 4xB, 2xC. My actual grades were 2x A*, 7 x A. Some people are really good at cramming, and would be massively disadvantaged.

I agree.
Exams will happen just later.
Extra time to study and revise while other students who believe exams won’t happen watch Netflix all day

*Exams will happen just later.
*Extra time to study and revise while other students who believe exams won’t happen watch Netflix all day

Such a simplistic view with no ability to understand differences.

Exactly @fantasiaa

I bloody hope they don’t go on mocks or guesswork. My DS did barely any revision for mocks, was unwell in the run up & during, didn’t do anywhere near as well as he could have done.

Then shocked by the results (& inspired by one of the kids at the sixth form open evening who said he’d also done really badly in mocks then turned it around and got all 7s or above in the real things) DS bucked up his ideas (unbeknownst to the school though) & would probably get 7/8/9s if he carried on & took them now. If they do anything other than delay it’ll be incredibly unfair on kids like him. However, it’s all a complete unknown & until they clarify then no point in worrying I guess!?

My predicted grades were C&D's, my actual grades were A&B's. I would have been massively disadvantaged.

I can't believe for a minute you are serious OP.

Exactly no point worrying. I doubt they will use mock grades. You can’t get graded on a GCSE if you haven’t sat an actual GCSE. Many kids may not have taken the mocks seriously as they are just mocks. I really do think they will sit them at a later date. Boris said no exams for the academic year which could mean when the year finished they will be called in to sit them in the holidays.

You can’t get graded on a GCSE if you haven’t sat an actual GCSE.

You can

Many kids may not have taken the mocks seriously as they are just mocks.

That is literally the whole point.

YES these kids are absolutely disadvantaged.

Mocks are there so if your child can't take the final exams for any reason those will be their grade. A lot of kids don't take Mocks seriously and unfortunately this can be the end result.
Last year DD had 3 pupils who were unable to do GCSEs and they all ended up with their mock grade as their results.

That’s weird @purpleboy as GCSEs can be taken by adults at a learning centre. To use mock results when there are places to take GCSEs when you wish is strange. Mock exams are not there in case you can’t take GCSEs either. They are there to see how well you do before doing the real thing.

Mock= pretend. Pretend exams before the real ones.

My bet is the exams WILL take place but a lot later on. Boris said exams won’t be happening in may and June but he never said they won’t be happening AFTER that. I seriously think they will open the schools maybe in the summer holidays for a week and year 11s will go in and take there exams

Exams take a massive amount of administration, marking and moderation. They also take up most of May and June for thousands of schools, children and teachers. You can’t just open schools for a week

They won’t happen.

Mock= pretend. Pretend exams before the real ones.

We know what Mock means. We also know what it's for.

I disagree, cancelled means just that... cancelled. Not postponed. I think they'll use mocks/estimated grades.

You're also not considering that many kids don't have a home environment conducive to an extra few months studying at home and that some kids are expected to work over the summer.

Even if they did delay them. Pupils would still be disadvantaged. Some kids might do well revising alone but pupils like my DS need the input of teachers.

Months out of school and then exams in august/sept would be a disaster for him.

To use mock results when there are places to take GCSEs when you wish is strange. Mock exams are not there in case you can’t take GCSEs either. They are there to see how well you do before doing the real thing.

Mocks are dual-purpose. They serve as a practice attempt so students can identify weaknesses, but they are also part of fall-back procedure for students who are taken ill during the real exams. Remember that many of them are multi-part. For example, I had to sit three different papers + coursework for GCSE Chemistry. Let's say a girl is in a car accident the night before one paper. She's done the other two and the coursework, and wants to do A-level Chemistry the next year, instead of repeating a GCSE chemistry course for the sake of one paper.

Her performance on the mock version may be used to sub the course for the exam she missed, and her grade issued accordingly.

I seriously think they will open the schools maybe in the summer holidays for a week and year 11s will go in and take there exams

On what grounds do you think that?

DS is happy as he got A,A,B in his mocks however his GF got C,C,D so she is incredibly upset. I think more dc than ever will want to resit their final year.

P.S. there aren't necessarily places to take GCSEs as an adult when you wish, if what you want to take is any less generic than Maths or English. Get a local adult learning prospectus, and check whether you can take both GCSE Geography and German and how much the courses cost, if they're available