New maths GCSE

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Hi just wanted to see if any other y11 parents have had their y11 mock results back for maths.
My ds has had his, im very concerned about his results, he is top group in a very good non selective, until the changes he was expected an A in maths, through y9 and 10 this changed to a 7, today he came home saying over 3 mock papers he only got 30% which he thinks is a 4, no one in his class got above 50%, think he said there were only 3 who got between 40% and 50% and a few were under 15%.
I understand being a new system teachers are only guessing about grade boundaries, but to me this seems very low, so just wanted to see what other people thought.

Thanks

I think year 11 are severely disadvantaged by the new level system.
Like you say, staff are new to it all but that does seem very low for children who were getting A.

DD is yr 10 now and was struggling to begin with but seems ok now but a lot of her other grades seem lower than the very high marks she hadn't been getting last year.
A lot of the GCSE curriculum has pulled A Level work down though so much harder in some subjects.
I really do feel for the kids doing exams over the next couple of years.

Dd1 has done hers. She got an 8, but they haven't done all the subjects yet.

Hi thanks your your replies. Have been talking with friends who's children r also y11 in other schools, 1 is in a grammar, they had similar marks as well, but yet last year we're getting 7/8 in maths, and predicted 7, just like my ds.

I wouldn't worry too much as they have said there will be be some pegging against the A*-G type exam:

" broadly the same proportion of students
will achieve a grade 4 and above as currently
achieve a grade C and above
 broadly the same proportion of students
will achieve a grade 7 and above as currently
achieve a grade A and above
 broadly the same proportion of students
will achieve a grade 1 and above as currently
achieve a grade G and above"

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I think there's a lot of uncertainty about maths, but it is definitely harder and has some content that used to be A-level stuff. DD1 was predicted an A initially, that changed to a 7, it is now an 8. She got the 8 in her mocks, scores around 75-80% in all three papers, but there were not many in her top set who scored that high, only the top 4 students in her set so 4 out of about 300 people. It is a very tough exam now.

Am currently marking yr 11 maths mocks - and the kids have found the new spec so much more difficult than the old. We are really worried about the outcomes.
To keep the % as oddboots suggested would mean very low grade boundaries followed by outrage in the Daily rags at how easy it is to pass Maths now!!!

For maths i would say whatever you are predicted You are very likely to get because the whole country is going to find it hard and as they have to keep the proportions the same ( so you dont get one year which is very unbalanced) the grade boundaries will have to be brought down.