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

Talk to your exam centre. If they're getting more detailed guidance on how to provide information to the exam boards then they may be able to arrange for you to submit work for assessment or to sit a mock exam to allow you to be awarded.
It will be dependent on their ability and willingness to do this but it's worth asking. If enough external candidates ask then there's more chance of teachers reps raising this with exam boards to come up with a good fair solution.

lets say you do appeal cos you're not happy with the grade given does this mean you go uni the following year? Cos exams have to be sat in 2021? This is maddnesss I actually cannot believe this - our future's are ruined!!!!

I salute the teachers that will be going into school to help those who are children of key workers, vulnerable and on free school meals. At a time like this they are the real heroes.

Another private candidate, homeschooler and resitter here, feeling suspended in mid air. When can we expect some clarity on this?

So no lower grade boundaries and nothing at all to help get a better grade in these stressful and unfair circumstances?

My mfl and English teacher despises me.

I really hope they do because letting a teacher decide is unfair.

same here went from a 3 to a 7 in GCSE Physics

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I'm not sure why you're insulting me. I won't be carrying on this conversation after this . But I appreciate this is not perfect and may produce many inaccurate grades

I am a resit student aswell so I'm in the same boat, I just wanted to give a little humor to a dark situation thats all.

Time to start buying your teacher gifts of bog rolls and dried pasta, folks.

I wonder if "other relevant data" includes previous year's results and exam boards plan to keep the grade statistics similar to previous years.

It's worth asking but doing one mock exam or assessment won't be indicative of a solid grade they could possibly provide me...I doubt they will be able to really give me a grade if I was a resitter for A Levels :/

How possible is it they might make the resit/private candidates just do the exam when schools open?

Talk to your exam centre. Make it clear you want to provide them with whatever work they need to produce a grade for you.

I'm so screwed, I didn't put in as much effort in mini tests and in my mocks I did so bad. Even if my teacher thinks I can do better, my grades don't show. I wanna cry, everything always goes downhill for me.

I dont understand the announcement. Is the decision at the teacher's discretion?

If a teacher decides to award a student an A, do they need to submit EVERYTHING that suggests they would achieve this grade?

Also - exam boards must understand that students tend to do significantly better in the real exams than in mock exams, and assessments taken throughout the year and therefore grades awarded need be higher than the average of these non-exam assessments??