This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Change the way A-Levels and GCSES were marked for 2020 examinations
I’m calling for Boris Johnson and to help ease the discourse surrounding results by taking into accountability our teachers predictions, as they are a fair judge of our character, not downgrade our results based on if our school is state or private, and create a free appeal process
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Almost 40% of A-level assessments have been downgraded, impacting the futures of thousands of young people. This can’t be right. For many pupils, the algorithm doesn’t even consider what our own teachers predicted we’d get and There isn’t a proper appeals process. Worst of all, pupils from public and state schools are due to get automatically marked down because of where they live and the school they go to, with their individual efforts totally disregarded.
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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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