Rejected petition Reverse the decision to unfairly downgrade 2020 A Level Results

The government should reverse the decision to downgrade around 35% of grades given out on A Level results day 2020, as the system used to determine these grades is unfair and unjust to this cohort of students.

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The way the government, in particular Gavin Williamson, have handled the 2020 A Level results is shocking and unfair on the thousands of students that have worked tirelessly to achieve, only for an unjust algorithm to take away opportunities for this cohort of students.

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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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Date submitted 13 August 2020
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