University 2020 :8: Use the CAGs, don’t use the CAGs...

[MillicentMartha]

...if you can use the mocks, then use the mocks but not if they're higher than the CAGs.

And hopefully on to university!

Old thread
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/higher_education/3993327-University-2020-7-Results-tombola-roll-up-roll-up-pick-a-prize?pg=39

Yes! A u-turn on A Levels but it doesn’t include BTecs. 👍🏻

YES. CAGs awarded for all A levels and GCSEs.

Thank you Snozzlemaid. Rang DD earlier and said it might happen. First choice is holding her place for her but she didn't know what to do now that she's got used to the insurance. I'm so bloody relieved!!!!!

So does this mean that pupils who may have been upgraded due to the algorithm may now be 'downgraded'?

They didn't reverse upgrades in Scotland. There will be a huge mess for university applications now. Would have been so much simpler if they'd made this decision before results day.

If their CAGs weren't as good as they results they got on Thursday?

Happy tears 😭

Only 2% of grades were higher than CAGs. I suspect they will be kept the same. Uni places may have been confirmed on them.

Not ideal, but none of this is.

keep the higher grade of the two if last week's results were higher than CAG I think

So what on earth do UCAS do now? Tell the universities they have to give the newly-upgraded students deferred places for next year and then lift the cap to expand the places so as not to disadvantage the Year 12s?

The Ofqual statement states that the student gets the higher of the CAG or the moderated grade - so there should be no downgrades.

Ofqual statement here: www.gov.uk/government/news/statement-from-roger-taylor-chair-ofqual

Well what a shame for Btec students who have been forgotten about yet again.

@MulierLite

The Ofqual statement states that the student gets the higher of the CAG or the moderated grade - so there should be no downgrades.

Thanks for clarifying...I did wonder how it could impact those where grades may go down...great news

More clarity on the details for uni places will come in the next couple of hours, according to BBC News24.

Wonder what this means for universities now?

DD and her boyfriend are both pleased to have the grade boost. It won't make a difference to what they are both doing now. DD's course is full and her boyfriend got his first choice, despite his lower grades.

I'm really pleased for everyone who suffered downgrades - I hope a way forward can now be worked out.

This won't affect DS as he got his CAGs and is not going until next year anyway (planned gap year).

@ThankyouPeter @YouthClub Jo Maugham (QC Good Law Project) has said they're still looking at grounds to appeal the decisions re btecs too. Might be worth following him on twitter

Good news. Let's wait and hear from universities.
Equally pleased that GCSE students don't have to go through this. The stories would have finished me off.
Has Gav resigned yet? Maybe my MP will come out of hiding now

Meningitis jab if he hasn't already had it.

Really happy for those affected! Cross fingers for BTEC!

Very good news for the downgrades but as Kingscote says what happens now . What a complete shambles, luckily Ds got his first choice and although his grades were downgraded he still met his offer. So no change regarding University but what happens to those who now want their first choice . Reading have apparently already just come out and said that they may not be able to honour all original offers

Happy for all and glad gcse don't have to go through what our lot did so much.

That pesky B gone and A restored! AA*A yay!

Well-regarded Universities in cities might well feel that they can find extra accommodation and expand up to the new cap, but won’t that mean that the lowest regarded universities won’t survive?

@KingscoteStaff

Well-regarded Universities in cities might well feel that they can find extra accommodation and expand up to the new cap, but won’t that mean that the lowest regarded universities won’t survive?

Yes.