A'Levels 2022 - Exam? CAGS?

[AreWeShafted]

Sorry if everyone knows what's going on BUT..... What's going on next yr for A'levels? are they going to be able to sit their exams? I'm sure I heard something about, them sitting exams but it will be based on a reduced curriculum etc . I dread our dc being shafted again with bloody CAGs/TAGs whatever. The lack of exams had an awful knock on effect on uni admissions this year which I'm hoping won't be repeated next year.

I don’t think it’s good enough to just say dc should just carry on studying as if they will sit exams. That is demoralising to anyone studying not knowing whether they will actually get a chance to write those papers. The question is why is everything being left so late? When is consultation going to start?
I have a Yr 12 at home studying seriously but every so often sighs with, ‘They might cancel the exams, after all my hard work, I won’t be able to prove it’. Telling young people it’ll be alright because you’ll just get CAGs is no consolation. I get that cancelling exams will benefit some students who do better through assessments but the point is, we need to know from OFQUAL exactly what is going to happen so everyone’s mind is at rest and. If it’s CAGs then everyone students can mentally adjust from thinking exams, if it is exams but based on reduced syllabus then schools need to know NOW because they are currently struggling to cover everything and it’s going to be devastating to be told at the 99th hour, ‘Oh no, we won’t be including all those bits in the exams’, across all subjects. Why waste everyone’s time and effort?

@GrammarTeacher

The decision of reduced coverage will come too late to help unless parents of year 12 and 10 join us in asking Ofqual what is happening.

How do we best do this? Do we write to Ofqual (I assume there's an email for correspondence?) Or the DfE? Are there particular points that we should include that are more likely to get us listened to (I've previously emailed by MP - staunch Tory and got a boilerplate response back; I'm keen to know if there is a better way to approach this)?

(Mum of a Year 10 and a Year 12)

Have also written to our (Tory) MP and got one page letter saying nothing except he doesn’t know what will be done next year but whatever is done will be the best thing that can be done. That I doubt.... would like to know any suggestions as to who else we can write

Write to Ofqual and the DfE. Anyone really. And the chair of the education select committee

@AreWeShafted

I’m not disagreeing- but schools, parents and students cannot control what the government do or do not decide.

All we can do at the moment is assume that exams will go ahead as normal. Work that DC do now will not go to waste as exams are highly likely to go ahead in some form.