The Sixteenth Republic - waiting on the GCSE results show!

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@MrsHamlet

Wow! I always knew they were out there but I never suspected actual teachers of doing something that dodgy.

The whole system is utterly insane and I think this year is just showing that up.

It would actually be more straightforward to get students moving up to do an entrance exam to their next stage than assess at the end of school and make all teachers directly accountable for each grade. No wonder people are so inclined to cheat!

@noblegiraffe

I log onto SISRA to see what my classes got. Could never get my head around ResultsPlus.

We get locked out of it! Only Hods allowed to see.

Based on the fact that he's managing to keep hold of his job at the moment, I'm going to say having an illicit affair with Boris Johnson.

He's a weaselly weasel. And that's an insult to weasels

Oh we get access to SISRA from 6am when the embargo is lifted.

We had our first challenge to an A-level CAG. Parents is querying why it’s not the same as the mock grade.

There is going to be a lot of this, isn’t there.

Oh yes, Belle! That was an extreme case but there were plenty. I also quite liked the ones who used the "nice girl" mark scheme: "Noblegiraffe is a lovely hardworking girl and fully deserves a mark of 15/15"

Only heads of department are trusted with passwords for any system of seeing results. Our exams officer also emails each hod with the results for their subject(s). My hod will forward them to the rest of us if we ask, but doesn't do it automatically as he doesn't want to encroach on our holidays.

If I waited for my hod I'd be waiting a long time. And not because he's protecting our holidays

Noblegiraffe is a lovely hardworking girl and fully deserves a mark of 15/15

Oh I have had the last word on two U4T threads that reached 1000 and the final post is slating U4T. Proud.

Given the importance that’s put on the results in terms of judging schools and teachers it would be more surprising if it didn’t go on.

That will annoy them

In which case, Noble, I take it all back. You can have 30/15

@RafaIsTheKingOfClay people were usually better at concealing it than that though!!!

ineedaholidaynow
I bet the parents of the party goers will be complaining if the teachers don't provide adequate work for them whilst they have to self isolate.

They are probably members of us4them

Absolutely, MrsHamlet. Always remember to remove the post its.

Thinking back it happened in my own GCSEs and it was much more subtle.

That’s not to say every grade that’s been upgraded is dishonest. As someone said earlier we don’t have a criterion based grading system.

@noblegiraffe

Oh I have had the last word on two U4T threads that reached 1000 and the final post is slating U4T. Proud.

Well done Nobel. A fabulous end to the thread

Certainly when science had CA there was lots of cheating going on, ome good side effect for our school was that our results went up when it was removed.
Some schools were totally blatant about it, I knew one teacher who was writing the answers on the whiteboard as the kids did the papers, and I remember chatting to a fellow teacher ( from a different school) one night in the rugby clubhouse whilst we marking ( and the kids playing rugby in the freezing cold outside)
“Just marking their second draft of the coursework” he said, redrafting not being permitted at all for our shared exam board

Exam Officer seeking refuge in the republic while pulling my hair out!
Now it looks like this week Y11 will only get their Centre-Assessed Grades (which I've somehow got into some vaguely-official document before Thursday), then next week the boards will issue the final grade (the highest of the centre-assessed and calculated). So a few students may have higher grades next week than this, and that's another lot of printing/posting/emailing/extra work.
www.gov.uk/government/news/gcse-and-a-level-students-to-receive-centre-assessment-grades
I knew I thought pleased about no longer having to submit loads of appeals too soon....
Oh, and A-level revised results out officially on Thursday, just when we're also trying to sort out the GCSE (part 1) ones...

Surely if the final grade isn't going to be announced until next week, wouldn't it be better to delay all of them until next week.

@BlanketyBlankAgain I know you won't because no one ever tells anyone anything important - but do you have any idea why now the delay? It doesn't make sense. The "calculated grade" exists and should be ready for you to download, and the ABs have the CAG. So what's the delay?

@ineedaholidaynow

Surely if the final grade isn't going to be announced until next week, wouldn't it be better to delay all of them until next week.

That would be far too sensible of the DfE... and they wouldn't want the headlines that GCSE results were late. No, let's go for the solution that doubles staff workload at very short notice instead!

Can you imagine the parents if they have to wait?
In other news, we've emailed y13 a letter so confusing that even I'm not clear whether they got the CAG or the GAV.

[quote MrsHamlet]@BlanketyBlankAgain I know you won't because no one ever tells anyone anything important - but do you have any idea why now the delay? It doesn't make sense. The "calculated grade" exists and should be ready for you to download, and the ABs have the CAG. So what's the delay?[/quote]
No idea. I imagine the Awarding bodies can only cope with 1 result and can't set up their systems to work out the higher of the Centre-assessed or Calculated before midnight tomorrow (when the results would usually have been sent). Doubt they were told about the change until 4pm today either...