This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition BorrisJohnson: we need a fairer system for this year's A-level and GCSE students
Almost 40% of A-level assessments have been downgraded, potentially impacting the futures of thousands of young people. The algorithm doesn’t even consider what our own teachers predicted we’d get. Poorer pupils get marked down because of where they live with their individual efforts disregarded.
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At a minimum, the Government must ensure there is:
No “marking down” of individual pupils based purely on them having gone to a 'worse' school
A free appeals system open to any pupil
More weight given to our teachers’ assessments, as they are better placed than an algorithm to judge us as individuals
Appeals using mock exams aren't the solution, many don't have reliable/ recent mocks; + would perform better at the end of the year than months ago.
Petition First Created By Curtis Parfitt-Ford
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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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