Coronavirus: Government outlines how GCSE and A-level exam results will be awarded

LOL do you realise how many people aren't happy at this stage?

This is what I wanted then to do so it's good to see them doing it. Those that have worked hard across the whole 2 years will be happy whilst those that were working to improve in the final exams still have that chance

I'm curious as to what this comment is meant to mean? Sorry. If somebody is unhappy at this stage, they can still take the exam?

but for those complaining they did outline you have an opputunity to sit your exams at the start of the next academic year

because you literally don't understand how much this will produce inaccurate grades.

Update 20th March 2020: Ofqual update (Source) : Ofqual will develop and set out a process that will provide a calculated grade to each student which reflects their performances as fairly as possible, and will work with the exam boards to ensure this is consistently applied for all students. The exam boards will be asking teachers, who know their students well, to submit their judgement about the grade that they believe the student would have received if exams had gone ahead.

To produce this, teachers will take into account a range of evidence and data including performance on mock exams and non-exam assessment – clear guidance on how to do this fairly and robustly this will be provided to schools and colleges. The exam boards will then combine this information with other relevant data, including prior attainment, and use this information to produce a calculated grade for each student, which will be a best assessment of the work they have put in. Ofqual will be discussing with teachers'representative before finalising an approach.

The aim is to provide these calculated grades to students before the end of July. In terms of a permanent record, the grades will be indistinguishable from those provided in other years. We will also aim to ensure that the distribution of grades follows a similar pattern to that in other years, so that this year’s students do not face a systematic disadvantage as a consequence of these extraordinary circumstances.

There will also be an option to sit an exam early in the next academic year for students who wish to and University representatives have confirmed that they expect universities to be flexible and do all they can to support students and ensure they can progress to higher education.

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So, what do you make of the news? How are you feeling now a initial plan has been laid out.

Do you think this is the fairest way for students to receive their grades considering whats going on at the moment? Do you trust that you will recieve the grades that you deserve?

What’s going to happen to BTEC students though?

What's gonna happen with gap year students doing A-Levels? Some of them don't even have predicted grades, and there's no way they would use their in-course assessment from 2 years back from secondary school...

They didn't even mention the private students with no teachers, what's happening with them?

because you literally don't understand how much this will produce inaccurate grades.

Its a fudge and there are going to be big winners and big losers.

I still think the better method was to either do exams or postpone them.

Whole point of A levels is to revise for the exam over a concentrated period and then get objectively marked.
Exam technique is sometimes not taught by some schools or not taught till later so mock results can be very poor and misleading.
Some teachers and schools overestimate or pressure is brought for them to do so.

It really wont reflect the hard work that some people will have been putting into revising since mocks v those who have done nothing.

I cant see how private candidates havent been kind of screwed, especially as they will have taken a whole extra year .

Then you'll have to retake.
What else are the government meant to do?

I appreciate that this may produce many inaccurate grades. In this case, they can still sit the exam later on. This isn't perfect but I'm not sure what the alternative is.