Did A level grades dip in 2023 across the board?

[Stopsnowing]

A few of the schools ds is looking at either haven’t posted their A level results or have pasted a kind of making excuses kind of description and I vaguely remember at an open day a teacher referring to grades going down. Was it a post pandemic revising down of grades?

[MigGirl]

Both GCSE and A level grades dipped. Mainly due I think to the removal of most of the exam concessions post covid and them returning to.pre covid marking.

[MigGirl]

As you HOD said you can only really compare 2023 results to 2019 anything in-between was affected by covid. Also schools didn't have to publish results either and some seem to have been reluctant to return to publishing them.

[titchy]

Yes - it's been pretty well publicised! DfE pegged grades back to pre-Covid levels.

[Stopsnowing]

Thank you. A couple of schools need us seem to have maintained their levels but lots haven’t!

[Revengeofthepangolins]

But what do you mean by "maintained their levels"? If they are coming at below 2019 then, that's a failure to maintain, but being below 20-22 isn't a actually a decline.