TV advert to explain new 9-1 GCSE doesn't mention new pass grade.

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www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-news/ofqual-ramps-publicity-amid-confusion-over-numerical-gcse-grades

Ofqual has been forced to launch TV and Facebook ads explaining the new GCSE grades after a survey showed that most people didn't know know anything about them, including 84% of HR professionals.

However, in a bizarre decision, the advert mentions that the proportion of kids getting a 4 and above will be the same as that who previously got a C or above but doesn't explain that the 5 will be the new good pass grade.

Why are they covering this up? Are they going to backtrack? Trying to avert panic?

Why are teachers around the country telling kids that 5 is the new pass and in future this is what employers will be looking for, when the government are not using this presumably expensive one-off opportunity to tell employers this?

Michael Gove sends his own children to state schools, albeit 'back-door' selective schools.

And the amazingly catastrophic maths mocks the year 11s did recently did little to calm people down..........

Progress from what is the issue. At the moment they use the APS from the KS1 TA. But that was a much finer grading under the previous levels.

Now there's just expected and greater depth + whatever is below those.

And there's no way a child just scraping expected and a child who's not been given greater depth because they are missing one criteria are at the same level. Yet they are both 'expected'. If hey use that as the progress measure there's no way to differentiate between those children.

Can see them using it as a way to introduce testing as the ks1 assessment tbh.

Also the parent of a frustrated year 11ds. He is top set, until earlier this year keen to do maths A level. Got a 4 in their first set of mocks in November, and still got a 4 in the second set they did in February. His marks improved on paper 1, but were the same for papers 2 and 3. This left him a few marks off the grade 5 boundary (obviously with the caveat of how accurate the grade boundaries the school are using are). He also seems to think "the other top set" did better overall, which isn't helping his mood. Have contacted school to get clarification on this. Feeling so angry that the changes have been rushed in, same as previous posters I am hoping he at least manages a 5 in the real exams as he can't go through life explaining a grade 4!