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

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Congrats appu.

Sorry to everyone disappointed.

I had no exam classes this year.

Oh and I wish we started on the 7th. We start on the 1st. 2 days inset then kids in.

The best student Ive had in 14 years god downgraded to a B. They FAILED students despite us never having a fail in 5 years. I’m am horrified at the results.

Maths was disappointing though-despite getting As in everything for 2 years, A at AS level, 8 in GCSE maths and A in GCSE further maths) -got a B??

Worth an appeal?!

Good news for your boy, Appu! 🥂 That must be a relief!

I don’t know if you can appeal on an individual prior performance, Appu? I thought it was just mock result for individuals or schools appealing because their cohort looked wrong.

That sounds wrong, Shadowboy, if you have a history of 100% pass rate...

WAAAAAY more of our school's results than 45% have been downgraded.

noble we got spreadhseets from exam boards that showed CAGs and results.

@noblegiraffe

I don’t know if you can appeal on an individual prior performance, Appu? I thought it was just mock result for individuals or schools appealing because their cohort looked wrong.

He’s gone to the school now to speak to them. His school didn’t do mocks-they do AS levels instead and use those for predicted grades. Not sure whether it matters, but maybe worth an ask.

Relieved for you appu!! Yay

In German we had a group of 5 (so Ofqual said they were fine) . An A downgraded to a C.

My film class were judged on a large and lazy 2017 cohort who did a different spec! That is NOT FAIR. 2018, new spec did better than that but had lower prior attainment.

There is no Value Added stuff at all.

It is literally all statistical. We had a strong year 13 years groups and the weaker 2018 and 17 year groups have shafted them. But even those year groups did well against PA.

we have LOADS of students who have gone down by 2 grades.

Thank you, guys-so relieved .

Shitty for so many people all round though.

I'm sure I heard on the news yesterday that no one would receive a grade lower than their AS grade.

I think that applies mainly in Wales where they're still coupled. We don't do any AS

His school didn’t do mocks-they do AS levels instead

Oh god, that’s one for Ofqual to wrangle over.

Primary school in Scotland closed due to an outbreak already just on news.

Ds got his first choice uni though so that’s good news.
Glad your ds did to Appuskidu

Oh yeah, I meant 2019 and 2017 (there was no 2018 class in my subject) . So class of 2017's results gave 78% of the weighting. I honesty did think they were looking at patterns, not saying large previous class could have a huge impact.

Our A-B in almost all subjects is on the trajectory we expected, but the A and A grades have all but vanished

Well done appu and starry . Must be a relief. Our three students got what they were predicted, fortunately.

@starrynight19 that must be due to community transmission as it's just too soon for it to have spread (and those infected to show symptoms) in school.

Still of note though, particularly as it shows local health authorities acting to close a school rather than just send a bubble home... Off to google it and discover if they've said how many cases in how big a school

I'm trying to reframe my thinking ready for next Thursday into "if the students had got these results how would I feel?". Complete false dichotomy I know but may help!

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-news/5923897/coronavirus-scotland-peterhead-school-outbreak/amp/

So, closed for today only, at the moment, but for just one case!

Augustbreeze it was a school in Petershead no details though.

That is what happened last term. We had four local primaries close for either one or two cases. I'd like to think PHE will be more cautious than the govt (or other home nation equivalent) and it's their call.

Just been in. We self-moderated our grades strictly before submitting them, but nearly 40% of the results have been downgraded.

I'm furious for the students and despondent today.

This is the front page in The Times:

www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/school-leavers-given-new-hope-after-a-level-chaos-qgr0l39m6

Peterhead is Aberdeenshire : interesting..