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

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If this is going to be the same approach used with GCSEs, does that mean that the vast majority of students will have CAGs completely discounted and their grades calculated purely by statistical model? Given that most subjects will have groups larger than 15.

There's some standardisation report (AQA ones are clearest ) with funny numbers of PA which is supposed to 'explain everything'. It doesn't.

It does rather seem that way iam and will be based on the last two years rather than 3 9wich that had been the case for A Level!)

*(wish...)

Iam yes I think so. I think I'm statisticed out as I tried reading the tiering section and it hurt.

I've only just seen the results for my class. In a class of 10 (a small class compared to our usual, because of option blocks) one was moved up and one was moved down.

I'm sorry some of you have had so many results changed. The algorithm doesn't seem very fair at all on an individual basis.

Great(!)

Cue more outraged/upset students, parents and teachers and likely more blame cast on teachers for being too 'generous'.

These are definitely the times that I'm glad I teach Year Six.

Well, perhaps we worry more than the students. They have just shown Northampton Town Centre on the telly and it was full of pissed up 18 year olds....

Northampton has a massive issue in 1 factory right now. 299 people from a Greencore factory have tested positive out of 1300 tested employees. Still another 3-400 results to come back apparently. It is not looking good.

It could be a lot of drowning their sorrows though...

I know : I live near Northampton. No one talks about the South Midlands/ Northern Home Counties but Northampton, Kettering, Peterborough, Bedford, Luton and, now, MK are all in trouble.

So... if you teach a subject which has a lot of the very small classes (in other schools) ,and you don't : does that mean you are a bit shafted if all the A and A Cags had to go to those little classes in other schools ? There simply weren't any more As to go around? My subject's average A Level grade has certainly gone down by a full grade.

piggywaspushed, that’s what I was trying to articulate in my earlier ramblings about physics. Large cohorts in a subject where small cohorts are the norm will have been completely screwed.

Having said that, in my school we have two subjects with a cohort of 4 and each has had a student downgraded from the CAG. But the ofqual link from a pp seemed to be saying that shouldn’t have happened.

Yes large cohorts in traditionally small subjects will be screwed too. There's no winners apart from independent schools here.

We had 2 out of 7 downgraded.

Dreading GCSE day 😩

DH's private school has terrible results included being handed a U for maths and they have never had one.

I think GCSEs will be a little more stable. Rapidly improving schools and smaller schools will lose out there.

Anyone else had a reply from IPSO about the DM article about 'Heads closing schools at lunchtime'? I had an email this morning saying that it does fall within their remit and the DM has one week to respond to my complaint as it might be a breach of the Editors Code of Practice.

Oh, interesting!

I'm going to start complaining more. Much much more.

I had a similar email mother.

Cal me cynical with Boris now calling quarantine on France and the Netherlands and opening other leisure sectors #hidethisshitshow

Exactly what I thought!!

Surely not?! How very dare you suggest such things!!

How many teachers are going to be caught up in the France quarantine now? Full complement of staff on day one of term anyone?