The Fifteenth Republic - A Level and GCSE Results storm coming!

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@starrynight19

Just marking place , bit of trepidation awaiting ds a level results on Thursday 😬

Snap

I know what posters are saying that the results are just a currency to get to the next level, but when they’ve got their heart set on a certain university, not getting in because of lowered grades will be really hard.

not getting in because of lowered grades will be really hard.

They wouldn’t know whether their grades had been lowered, or that’s what their teacher predicted - not sure which is harder really.

Hope they get what they need, anyway.

Sympathy out there to all of you with children awaiting results. Must feel a million times worse than

Appuskidu he has been really quite relaxed about the whole thing up to now but today can see the nerves creeping in.
Hope we don’t fair the same as Scotland. Good luck to yours. Agreed it’s the culmination of lots of visits and coursework even without the exams. Fingers crossed 🤞

I said right at the start that they would only get away with this if they didn’t publish any stats for picking fault with.

And allowing kids to see CAGs is unforgivable.

66 % of parents on Parent Ping said they were not worried that their child has fallen behind! Only 5% were very concerned.

Noble am I right in thinking that they didn't include the legal protection to keep the CAGs secret when they wrote the new legislation? Someone dropped a ball there.

@Piggywaspushed

Oh God mother : DUCK!!!

Remember, YOU are not allowed to go to the pub, meet elderly relatives, go on holiday or go to a supermarket. YOU are a TEACHER and a guardian of all morality.

Fuck it. If it's OK for me to mix with however many potential asymptomatic spreaders during the school day, I sure as hell am NOT going to be prohibited from going to the pub for a drink if I want to.

The responses are somewhat amusing in that after weeks of peopel saying that its OK and safe to spend all day in large groups of different teenagers and young adults with no protection, that the consensus is that I as a teacher I should still put everyone's health first.

Funny that its not that way in schools.

Sorry should say on the SD thread.

@Piggywaspushed where did you see that announcement re PPE announcement, can't see it anywhere? Thanks

It's in the article I linked to upthread on the Belfast school.

www.theguardian.com/education/2020/aug/11/keir-starmer-england-must-alter-course-on-a-level-grades

Riga- I just read that. That’s just generated a huge amount of additional admin for schools and I will imagine it will make almost no difference to anyone’s results.

They are panicking after Scotland.

Crikey! That's actually shocked me.

It’s a nonsense decision and Geoff Barton’s is response was great. There is no standard for mocks. No requirement to use actual past papers, no moderation of marking, no consistency in terms of when they are sat or how many papers kids do. It also looks like schools that do walking talking mocks or open-books exams won’t be eligible. What did a mess! I’m now dreading Thursday.

Secondary schools colleagues-what does this actually mean?!

DS didn’t really do ‘mocks’ as such? He had...

grades he was working at in March
AS grades from Y12
end of year predictions and presumably the grades the school predicted him.

Which are they talking about!?

for all secondary teachers, and exam board employees, who've expended so much blood, sweat and possibly tears to do what had been asked of them and be as fair as possible to exam students in a pandemic.....

What. The Actual. Fuck.

Our A-level mocks were modified papers with our own grade boundaries because they hadn’t finished the course. How would that be fair comparison with a kid who did a full paper and got a mark using the real grade boundaries despite not having finished the course?

It’s only an option if the school can verify that they did mock exams in exam conditions. There will be some schools where that didn’t happen and so their students won’t have this option.

Who knows?!
Our year 13 had a result from their year 12 exam (one whole paper). The Lang students had their January mock (the other whole paper). The Lit students had half of paper 2 as their January mock and hadn't done the other half. None of the grade boundaries used were the real ones for that series.
Year 11 had done Lang 1 in year 10 and Lang 2 in 11, and the lit papers in "text chunks" over the course. But some people preteach the question (!) and the grade boundaries are always moved to suit the rhetoric of the time. We never internally standardise despite the fact that we have examiners for 3 of the 4 papers in the dept. Frankly, it's a shambles.

@noblegiraffe

What. The Actual. Fuck.

Our A-level mocks were modified papers with our own grade boundaries because they hadn’t finished the course. How would that be fair comparison with a kid who did a full paper and got a mark using the real grade boundaries despite not having finished the course?

Yup.

I’m with you, noble. This is a ridiculous decision and I’m really cross that I have to explain this to year 13 on Thursday. What a year I picked to be a new HO6th!

Just how can't people see how incompetent this government is?!?!