Exceeding, meeting etc - Meeting what exactly?

[penguinsandpanda]

DD has been given her report and I also got it. I told her its fine but she wants to know what the exceeding / meeting etc means - obviously exceeding is pretty clear but meeting - what are you meeting exactly - national expectations so maybe a grade C at GCSE or her grammars expectations so probably an A at GCSE. Does anyone know? We have 5 grades for each subject and it looks fine to me but think DD is a bit worried. I found the old national system really easy to understand but I don't get the new grades at all. Thanks. We had a strange thing before saying the computer was predicting her all As/A* equivalents in the new grades so it could be compared to that but really haven't got a clue but looked fine and she's working hard.

No one can tell you, you need to ask the school. The government scrapped levels and didn’t replace them so schools are making it up as they go along, and your school will be doing it differently to other schools.

Thanks very much - DD had told me it was national but just read it again and it said its based on your daughter's expected progress based on previous CATS scores etc against other grammar school students.

Can reassure her properly now - she always argues she's failing since she's started the grammar but its just as everyone is high achieving there.

I really don't understand why schools find it so hard to put in an explanation of their grading. Our school manages it, it's not exactly rocket science to realise that parents may need an explanation / reminder.

We have a similar system : effort, predicted EOY grade, actual grade, on track for EOY grade etc.

Confusing but at least transparent!!

Our school does effort grade, then 'if student sat the GCSE today' estimated grade - parents are then told to add a grade a year for an expected GCSE grade. They won't formally predict grades as there are too many unknown these days.

No one can tell you what it means, it means different things to each school. Only the school can answer, even then half the staff probably don't know what it means, in my experience.

Why the government scrapped levels is beyond me.

Because they were poorly understood by parents...!

Except I did understand them and now I have rubbish information about exceeding etc