No exams this summer

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Blimey.

Waiting for more details about this.

What about the independent sector where SATs are not taken, and in particular, a school where the average student achieves the equivalent of all A*s except 1 A? There have never been predicted grades.

I think whatever the outcome is, it will be less than ideal. My own (not a teacher) thoughts are that predicted grades will be used and everyone will move to the next level in September with the option to resit stuff they aren't happy with.

So based on dds current grades she would resit her french GCSE while doing A levels working on French in her 'enrichment' time.

University's still need the same number of students. I can't see as many international students applying or taking places personally.

And as I said earlier to dd it's not just her, or her school or the UK it's worldwide. Every student in every school around the world will be in the same situation. And that grades at 16, 18, 21 don't define us or our life path.

Have said to pick her favourite 5 subjects and continue to work on them but also look for online courses in subjects she hasn't studied before and work through those just so she can say in the future she stayed focused on education during these times. We are going to look at OU later and see if there is anything on there. Then there is BBC bitesized learning and some universities have online tastee courses I think.

Teachers will know how hard your children have been working and will want to do their very best to make predictions that are accurate and get your children where they deserve to be

Lots and lots of kids do badly in the mocks - it's used as a way of bucking the kids up - frightening them into working harder.

This isn't perfect - it isn't great - but it will be as good as it can be and the worst result would be to affect everyone's mental health so badly that it has a greater effect than the virus.

Please reassure your kids that they are more than just exams and the pathway they end up on will be a positive one for them - and of it looks like it won't be then there will be the option to repeat and result which isn't the end of the world

Maybe they will tell teachers to list their pupils in order academically by ability and effort and then say allocate the grades with top two percent, next five percent etc🤷‍♀️

@ExServiceWoman

Many schools won't have finished the NEA sections of work yet.

Food and nutrition are just starting the second practicals and most Tech/Engineering work/marks isn't due for 2 months.

Gavin Williamson has just said that there will be clarity of how the exam boards will award the grades tomorrow.

My sons predicted grades were 7s. He had passed his SATs in a school that fed into the 11+ system so they were well rehearsed and most kids were tutored. In reality in his GCSEs he got one 7, 3 • 6’s and the rest were 5s. I remember his DT teacher telling us he was his top student. In reality he got a 5 in that subject. So based on my lazy son’s experience I would say predicted grades are not ideal.

We’ve been told by our head again today that exams will “probably” be July but definitely not cancelled. We have to contact parents daily of the year 11’s and 13’s that aren’t completing work.
I thought the announcement was pretty clear but we can’t be the only school doing this

I have twin DSs they are both in year 13. One is very accepting, he loves learning and study but has hated school due to bulllying last year so he's pleased to stay in and have online lessons for now. The other one is just waiting to see what happens. They both work really hard and both want to go to Uni.

I know it's small in the scheme of things when people are ill and dying but I am gutted for them. Everyone deservers that "last day" and "end of school" feeling. It will feel weird not to draw a line under school and just have people melt away.

@tinytemper66 do you have a link to that please?

Our email from school said definitely cancelled?

Says officially cancelled this year on sky news

Looks like my kids are in the minority - one due to take GCSEs and one A levels. They're both delighted that they haven't got the stress of revision and exams. Both very easy going and of the attitude what will be will be

The grades your students will have been given are 'Target Grades' - that's what the school wants them to get for the schools results as a whole to look good

The teachers themselves will have better predicted grades in jndivdual subjects

This will be a massive lesson In life that hopefully we never forget. Mocks are serious, the kids can think they aren’t and then pull their socks up and knuckle down. This year they won’t get that opportunity.

Life sometimes isn’t fair but my take from this is that you must always do your best because sometimes the opportunity to improve is grabbed from you.

Exams cancelled in my place. Nothing about July. That sounds more like wishful thinking, and wound extend the stress of exams.

I won’t be using the target grade based on KS2 info. It’s often wrong. I’ll be using my knowledge of how my students have understood over the last 2 years

My son just got told no exams 100%

@Bathroom12345 I agree but mocks are also a lesson in how pass an exam as much as the knowledge, ie how long to give to each question, what information is being required etc and that is why kids tend to do better in actual exams than in mocks. Teachers have told me students expect to get one to two grades higher in May than November mocks so it’s not just knuckling under but being tutored in how exams work, meaning mocks aren’t the whole picture

For GSCE’s I agree, for A levels I don’t. Of course mocks aren’t the whole story but this is all we will have along with teacher assessments.

For anyone with evidence that the grades end up being incorrect that is fine but just because your MUM thinks you were about to improve will not cut it. And also where were your parents when the mocks were being sit? Hopefully they were encouraging you to not take the mocks lightly. Or maybe not hence this thread....

There will be an option for appeals.