GCSE's for home-edded when predicted grades or mocks?

[FreakStar]

How will this work?

Sorry, when no predicted grades or mocks!

Surely when you’ve opted out of the educational system you won’t expect to be handed a GCSE certificate?!

Surely when you’ve opted out of the educational system you won’t expect to be handed a GCSE certificate?!

I don't think you understand the question, or how it works. Perhaps rather pointless you sticking your opinion in.

OP I haven't heard anything about how it will work as an independent candidate. It seems to have been forgotten in the chaos. I imagine that unless you have a tutor who they trust to give a predicted grade, that it will mean taking exams in November. Frustrating.

Opting out of the school system doesn't mean opting out of exams. Hundreds of home ed children have been studying towards GCSEs and A levels and have booked and paid to take exams as independent candidates.

Lots of discussion on the Home Education exams group most speculation. We are assured we are not forgotten and information will come out shortly. Exam centres are yet to receive any information from exam boards so very much try to be patient. In the meantime keep revising and doing past papers. Keep the!.as evidence.

Has anyone seen today's update? Looks like private candidates might have to sit exams after all in the autumn which seems very unfair... are they supposed to spend their summer revising now?

It seems like the only fair option if there is no other independent or professionally assessed evidence to be used.

I don’t know what else they could do? They can’t ask parents for predictions in the same way school can. Only option

DD is entered for a gcse this year as a private candidate. I think one way to resolve this is for the exam centres to allow candidates to sit a mock paper in exam conditions and for this result to be the basis of the centre's recommendation. I think if they have been persuaded to enter a student as a private candidate in the first place, and the parent arranges it, including paying for an invigilator, it's likely the centre would be happy to do that. Maybe home ed groups could organise a few parents to club together for the invigilator?

I think one way to resolve this is for the exam centres to allow candidates to sit a mock paper in exam conditions

Maybe home ed groups could organise a few parents to club together for the invigilator?

What part of the current rules about non-essential travel, schools only being for keyworkers and no gathering are you not understanding? There is NO WAY that kids, adults or whoever will be sitting GCSEs, mocks, any other sort of formal assessment this year. Not happening.

Yes it's unfortunate for children who have opted out of school and were preparing at home. But this is a tiny percentage of the GCSE/A-level/Scottish Higher candidates. September isn't ideal, but let's be honest, it's the best option there is right now.

What part of the current rules about non-essential travel, schools only being for keyworkers and no gathering are you not understanding?

ODFOD

I know of at least one person home edding who is a trained teacher and is doing mocks for other home ed'ers. Whilst exam conditions mocks often are less strict in requirements than the real deal so I think there are ways round this.

Schools aren't just using mock exams though. The school would need to rank the private candidate in the same list as their own students, without the same range of evidence available to them. I'd be surprised if they were willing to do that. I wouldn't.