Rejected petition Make 2020 GCSE grades have no effect on university admissions for all students

Since 2020 GCSE grades will be incredibly inconsistent and may have a high proportion of grades lowered, i believe the government should advise universities/employers to not weigh 2020 GCSE grades at all when considering applications, as ‘our’ results will not be indicative of our abilities.

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The overall system that is being used to calculate GCSE grades for all candidates is deeply unfair and may negatively affect all students, and specifically those from a lower-class background. It is very well known that various teacher-predicted grades will be dropped due to ‘generosity’, thus potentially causing thousands of students-particularly those that come from lower-income backgrounds and those that go to lower-performing schools (including me) will be penalised for very little reason.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

Decisions about university admissions are a matter for individual universities, not the UK Government or Parliament.

We have published the following related petition, which you might like to sign:

Review the decision to use previous data to calculate exam grades: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/306773

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 6 August 2020
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