Can DD retake German GCSE next year to improve grade if need be?

[Sobek]

Just back from parents' evening and year 10 Dd's teacher said she probably won't hit her target grade of an A (she's double option, so does German in Year 10 and French in Year 11). I said that DD doesn't want to do French next year and would like to carry on with German with the hope of improving her grade to an A*. He said that it's no longer possible to improve your grade this way and that she will be stuck with whatever grade she gets for German this year regardless of any improvement if she takes the exam again next year. Is that correct?

I heard something about Progress8 but didn't really understand it. For some reason, I thought that it was only going to affect the current Year 8s.

Thanks for that deadline Noble, that is very interesting, especially as my Year 11 wanted to give up WJEC GCSE French as the whole of the group are failing (they're the top languages group too!) and I was told last week that it is far too late to withdraw her now and that she has no choice but to take the exam. She was predicted an A* too!

Progress/attainment 8 is the new school measure instead of 5 A* to C including English and maths. Starts for current Y 10s. It's a better measure in some ways as it includes all GCSE grades down to G in 8 GCSEs. English and maths are double weighted, (English only if lit and lan taken) then 3 EBacc subjects from sciences, computing, MFL, history, geog, and 3 'others' which can be more vocational or EBacc if not already one of the 3 in the EBacc basket/bucket.

But this is a school measure, not a child measure. So he is either mistaken or being economical with the truth to try to improve his department's results.

Another comment about resisting with the rest of year 11 next year. This will depend on option blocks, most probably this will work if the other year 10 class who are sitting the exam next year have German at the same time as her current class.

That's a good point about the timetable Mostly, I hadn't thought about that. Apparently, there is some sort of rotation and it depends which half of the timetable she has got. So it might not be possible anyway.

sobek just to clarify though, when she applies to university eventually, she will have to declare all attempts