Rejected petition Give all BTEC students their predicted grades due to COVID-19 and extra pressure

To change the rules for BTEC to allow predicted grades for this current year due to COVID-19. Also, A Level and GCSE students are getting predicted grades as this would be unfair not to give it to BTEC students. I believe there should be flexibility in grades due to this unprecedented situation.

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BTEC students work harder than A Level students and GCSE students as a whole load of assignments need to be written and given in before a fixed short deadline. This can be stressfull and it is stressfull for all BTEC students as the pressure is mounting up on teachers and students overall. Furthermore, a lot of work has been put from BTEC students from all different subjects from the start of the year and previous years. So it would be unfair and unjust to not give predicted grades to them.

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 exams are a matter for exam boards and individual schools, not the UK Government or Parliament. You can read the Government's announcement about what will happen to exams here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/further-details-on-exams-and-grades-announced

Ofqual has stated that it is working with awarding organisations to finalise a list of qualifications that we will advise the Secretary of State should be in scope for learners to receive a calculated result, and this will include many BTEC Nationals: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/awarding-vocational-and-technical-qualifications-this-summer

If you want the Government to review the decision to use previous data to calculate exam grades, you may wish to sign this petition:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/306773

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

NHS website: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
UK Government website: https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus

You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips

You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Find out more and watch the Committee put questions suggested by petitioners to Government Ministers and the Deputy Chief Medical Officer: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/news/145767/committee-question-deputy-chief-medical-officer-and-ministers-on-coronavirus-response/

Read correspondence with Government Ministers asking further questions: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/publications/3/correspondence/

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Date submitted 3 April 2020
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