maths teachers - do you predict a grade 9?

[DorothyL]

Or do you think that's not possible?

Plus in English, the difference in grade boundaries can be harder "sophisticated use ..." "Highly sophisticated..." Etc.

To reiterate what others have said above (I'm a maths teacher), a lot of schools haven't even moved onto the 1-9 scale yet and are still operating in grades and the numbers have been purposefully made to not match up with the grades so that we don't try and equate them. As teachers we haven't been given very much information about the new grading system and schools have a lot of free reign to decide how they report grades back to parents (and because of academies it's not consistent across the country).

As a teacher, I'd be very wary of predicting a 9 as it's not very clear what that looks like at the moment. I imagine as we get more experience with the system we will feel more confident in predicting a 9 but until then I think teachers will play it safe.