Form a queue to bribe your teacher.

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So teachers will decide GCSE and A level results?

That'll work then.

Not true. My stepdaughter teaches GCSE and A level.and hasn't even been in today! She works part time and definitely won't be doing anything til Monday at earliest.

Not true. We've been given no guidance from our council and no hint of being asked to do it yet. Teachers won't be able to take bribes anyway, we'll have to justify every grade with data from the last 2 years I imagine.

Please can I ask all to actually read the link that has been posted, in its entirety?

To stop any panicking, if it turns out that your child does not like the grade they have been awarded (which will be provided by their teacher based on mocks/assessments etc and then checked against their govt data to check if it is a likely grade) then they will have the option to take an assessment, later in the year.

And I am shocked any school (and I work in a state school too ClassicallyConditioned) would do something so drastic before any guidelines have been published and be prepared to have to do more at a later date, especially as we are all still supposed to be working from home or providing childcare physically in school.

Russel yep teacher and DD have got it wrong. The predicted grades sent today are NOT necessarily the final grade the student will receive.

I have email from AQA this evening setting out the points and way forward on this. Final things have to be sorted out but it will be a mix of teacher predictions, previous assessments and regulators from the exam board looking at previous results.

Teachers will have to have evidence that can be called upon. More guidance on this is to follow

Nice to know you have such faith in our professionalism OP.

A Level predictions are not wrong 80% of the time. That is misreported. That is UCAS predictions which are not the same thing at all.

And perhaps if successive governments (stares hard at Govey) hadn't meddled and tampered and 'reformed' then, predicting would be easier.

My internal predictions were 100% accurate for A Level last year and 96% for GCSE.

I cannot see another solution anyway.

And I have tow legs in this game as my lovely lovely DS is in year 11 and has worked his socks off to be predicted grades, no doubt, above his KS2 indicators which may then be statistically 'rectified'.

This is a good summary from OCR, one of the exam boards. Nothing has been submitted to boards yet, and no timelines.

www.ocr.org.uk/news/coronavirus-advice/

I'm concerned about that too piggy. That the kids who've worked hard and done better than their target over the years will have their grades pulled down and those who did well in sats but have not worked at secondary school will have their predicted grades pulled up.

Hopefully not. The teachers really do know best. Effort is a huge factor that they can't overlook.

Teachers aren't the problem : it's the statisticians you need to watch out for!

Yes. I think the teachers will give a fair predicted grade. It's more the sat result bringing it down I'm concerned about. Dd does better than her target based on her sat result.

Effort is a huge factor that they can't overlook I hope not

I teach sixth form and our principal has said keep setting work remotely for y13 and keeping it saved somewhere so we have a body of evidence to use to support our predicted grades which should be based on work done up until the exam board ask for them. So over the coming weeks those students who could still raise their game will have the chance to demonstrate what they’re capable of. Teachers will set exam questions and mocks remotely and take everything into account. Predicted grades entered onto school systems now are not their final grades, and even the ones we do enter will be triangulated by the exam board against last years results, previous data on students etc.

My son didn’t sat’s so no mark there. He was ill for the mocks. So he only has predicted grades and what the teachers think. He has his last report this week. All fours and fives.

Sorry. Posted too soon. I’m hoping they go with his predicted grades. Not sure what else they will go on for him to be honest.

Also. His college that he wants to go to have said no one needs any grades this time and everyone can do the course they want which I think is wonderful

Russel yep teacher and DD have got it wrong. The predicted grades sent today are NOT necessarily the final grade the student will receive

Was that meant for me

Dd hasn’t got it wrong thank you 😀. She just told me what the teacher had told her class

But I appreciate the teacher may be confused or speaking out of turn, she, like loads of other teachers, must be very stressed at the moment

Of course if it wasn’t meant for me then please ignore my post

Seriously, forget they ever happened