Do you think there will be any changes to the Year 10s GCSEs next year?

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I have a ds in year10 and was thinking about the impact this would have on his year groups gcses. Do you think there will be any adjustments made or just a mad scramble to catch up when they do return to school?
Possibly grade boundaries could be lowered and more of a choice of questions in the exams. Obviously at this point we don't know how long they will be off.

We’ve already had an email to say that for one class lessons will be taking place after school to catch up in September. I’m happy with that so is ds if it means they catch up.

The grades are fiddled (sorry, standardised) each year anyway to ensure the right number of kids are in each grade boundary. So, as normal, they'll lower the grade boundaries so that if they want, say, 10% to get grade 9, they'll lower the boundary to 85% or 80% or whatever to make that happen and so on through the grades. The boundaries vary enormously from subject to subject and year to year anyway, allegedly to allow for how hard the exam is, so the same philosophy will apply. Obviously, some will be disadvantages, i.e. those who havn't been getting good school support for home learning over the lockdown, but there'll always be winners and losers. They can't decide to withdraw sections from the syllabus because different schools (and even different teachers in the same schools) will do the syllabus in different orders - it's not as if everyone is being taught chapter 15 at the end of the course (except maybe in Maths where it is more likely to be done in a logical order, getting progressively harder towards the end of the course).