GCSE Summer 2020 Thread 7 : Carry on Corona Cohort, Cruising or Crawling to The Final Countdown

[OrangeCinnamon1]

Welcome all to the 7th Thread for this year's GCSE cohort ...or the Corona Cohort as has been termed by @FoolsAssassin.

Some of us have been here since I started first thread back in 2010, some will be new. Everyone has been friendly and helpful in the past. It is hoped this will continue. Going forward we intend to stay in secondary so any new threads should have 'GCSE Summer 2020 Thread # : Carry on Corona Cohort' in title just to make it easier to find.

From now on our DS/DD may go down various paths so we decided not to be exclusionary and stay right here in Secondary

Thread 1 The first GCSE yr 10

Thread 6 last thread

I'm just tired...can't type !

Argh... I hope this is true - might as well keep my fingers crossed for gcse results to and that they take the same approach next week too.
Will probably change their tune five times between now & Thurs

We'll keep fighting!

I've just emailed my local (tory) mp asking what he is doing about the whole effing shambles -although I did put it slightly more eloquently

@OrangeCinnamon1 suggestions for post titles:
GAV give them their CAG
GCSE Omnishambles

Just a huge thank you to everyone who is contributing and discussing on this forum. No idea what's waiting for DD on Thursday but certainly not feeling alone as we try to decipher this high level 9 Fuckwittery

Head of Ofqual has no exam experience .. is from a procurement background FFS

@OrangeCinnamon1

I have no idea what to call the next thread ........

Roll up, roll up, get your lottery ticket here...

Honestly this getting more ridiculous by the minute. Just listening to it on the news. It’s not going away and the government know that.

Fingers crossed for CAGs as it’s the only fair way forward for students.

But shocked to wake up and find they are already reviewing what they published a few hours earlier , Ofqual that is. There are A level students whose places hinge on it.

DS has gone from being an empty shell of a person to actually seeming ok . I think he has worked out that the Head of College has lost confidence in the GCSE results and if you don’t get the grades is going to look at the selection data held on them so I guess he feels that it is fair and he did get his chance to prove himself so really he is lucky. Assuming his calm means he thinks he has done ok, bloody hope he’s right.

DH is walking round looking strained now so DS looks calmer than his parents. Really feel for those whose DC are understandably struggling. This is an extremely cruel process that are being put through. By a Government who took away the previous assessment elements that were in place that would have meant there was a fair amount if data that could have been used .

The Conservative Party, the Party who do over the young. I think Dad might be right, people have long memories for things that effect their children and grandchildren and cause the level of upset and injustice for some that this has caused.

Please don’t vote for this shambolic party next time!

I didn’t vote for them this time. Hell would freeze over before I voted for these cretins!

Just woken after a sleepless night most of which was spent imagining various scenarios for Thursday none of which were good. The whatsapp I am in with some other y11 parents has already started buzzing away.

DS has always been predicted a 4 for English, his attainment had crept up from weak 3 in y10 exams to strong 4 by Feb. He desperately wants to avoid resitting as he isn't strong enough academically to undertake it alongside L3 BTEC. His mock wouldn't have been valid by those criteria only one paper was taken in exam conditions, another in class a couple of weeks later. Everything rests on this one CAG (the other mocks would have been valid but were in early Dec). He is stressed, after feeling a bit relieved after the Scotland climbdown last week.

@PaddingtonPaddington

Honestly this getting more ridiculous by the minute. Just listening to it on the news. It’s not going away and the government know that.

Fingers crossed for CAGs as it’s the only fair way forward for students.

Well by Thursday if they haven't sorted this out fairly there is going to be an avalanche! Imagine the number of subjects that each student takes at GCSE level compared to A Level!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs/the_papers

The Observer is saying 97% of GCSE results will be calculated by the algorithm which is quite an increase on the A levels , in the 80s but can’t fund the figure at the moment - think it was 87%.

Is that 97% disregarding the CAG or do they use that as a baseline for the algorithm?

What’s wrong with early mocks ?

The appeals system (not there is currently one) will be overwhelmed. All this about trying to devalue the results is a joke and they have been before they have even been received.

It was so unnecessary and I am livid.

Lilgreen as I understand it and I am not well caffeinated currently, the CAG has not been used in the algorithm - only the ranking the teachers have given .

Oh bloody hell I hadn’t realised. That’s a terrible waste of teachers’ time. Fingers crossed it’s CAG all the way!

So the 3% that are not subject to the algorithm, is that new schools who do not have enough previous data and also very small cohorts? I would think the latter are more likely to be in the Independent sector at GCSE l that is going to cause further uproar if so.

Nothing wrong with early mocks used as mocks but if they are allowed as the basis of the appeal then it's likely that those who did them in early March would have a huge advantage over those that did them in early Dec with several weeks less teaching and no Christmas holiday revision.

Morning.... on my first cuppa & have bbc news on. I can’t believe it!!! What a mess.

Give them the CAG FFS!

We are doing IGCSE's but the same standardisation applies. Our school sat mocks in early Dec and they haven't been back since the end of Jan! How fair is that!

@easy thanks. My DD did both! November and March and both under proper conditions. I wasn’t happy at the time but she revised and got good grades(lowest a 5, others 6-9) and now I’m glad!

Yes I see, her grades went up in the March ones.