This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition STOP REDUCING 2020 GCSE AND A-LEVEL GRADES DUE TO 'INFLATION'
Stop reducing the GCSE and A-level results for 2020 qualifiers.
It is unfair that the government and exam boards want to reduce the grades of the 2020 GCSE and A-level students. We need our future education. We need our grades to be FAIR. But that has been taken away from us.
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It is so unfair. Some children have had issues such as grief or hospitalisation that may have affected their achievement. This means that their mock exam grades, classwork may not be at their same level. We were told we would be graded 'fairly' but what about the schools that don't inflate grades? There are also cases which universities will need more students, so why are you reducing grades when children need entry requirements? What about those who will just scrape a pass only to be reduced?
This petition was rejected
Why was this petition rejected?
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Since you started your petition the Government has announced that GCSE and A-level students will receive their centre assessment grades: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/gcse-and-a-level-students-to-receive-centre-assessment-grades
Prior to this announcement being made, we had published the following petitions, calling for similar actions to your request:
Reverse all exam grades back to teacher’s own predictions: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/334491
Review the decision to use previous data to calculate exam grades: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/306773
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