Rejected petition Cancel the awarding of U grades from the A-level results in 2020.

Cancel the U grades awarded by the algorithm for the 2020 A-level results. Students should not walk away with nothing to show for their time when many have worked hard to get towards an E or a D. The potential exception to this being if the teacher prediction was a U.

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As an experienced teacher I know that mock exams almost always elicit lower grades than final grades, especially from the students at the lower end of the grades. A student who fails an early mock is not often one who fails the course. When we teach students to learn from their mistakes, persevere and work harder in order to improve it is unacceptable to dish out U grades in the current circumstances. The mock exam caveat is unlikely to help many at the lower end of the grading system.

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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

Allow free and accessible appeals of GCSE and A Level calculated grades: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/334013

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Date submitted 15 August 2020
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