DS is waiting for year 10 exam results to be released tomorrow. The school haven't given any information on what kind of progression they expect from year 10 to the final GCSE so he is not quite sure what to expect and seems quite stressed by that. The school say they mark to the final GCSE standard but won't gives 9s at this stage (so the top is an 8 even if you had a 'perfect' paper). He worked hard and is reasonably bright so I am concerned that he might be disappointed and want to manage expectations.
Does anyone know roughly how much progression they tend to make in that year?
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Year 10 exam results vs actual GCSE
Mia85 · 18/05/2022 18:25
sickofthisnonsense · 18/05/2022 18:42
No idea. One teacher has told the class that because they will only be doing a exam on half the syllabus they will only get 1/2 the grade so an 8 would be a 4. That was for RS but sounds like BS to me!
MrsR87 · 18/05/2022 18:53
OP, it’s difficult to say without knowing what kind of assessments and data have been used to come up with the result for year ten. The ways schools do it, especially post pandemic vary enormously.
I’m a head of faculty and our year tens are doing an end of year exam paper. It’s the same style, amount of marks and length as the real papers, but it’s one I’ve put together so that it only covers the topics they’ve seen so far. I then use an average of the grade boundaries from the past few years to allocate the grades. This exam score is then collated with all the assessments from year 10 (all exam style questions relating to the topics taught) for the overall year grade.
Based on this model, most pupils make 1-2 grades progress by May of year 11.
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