Yet More Gcse Chaos

[sherrardk]

According to the DfE, students will receive their centre assessed grades on Thursday but they can accept the one arrived at by the algorithm if it’s higher - but these might not be ready in time (but they don’t say when they will be available). I’m aware that these are unprecedented times but how can they have made such a mess of this?

[rockyracoon]

I really don’t see why they can’t get both on the same day.

The whole thing has been a fiasco. How they didn’t foresee it I’ll never know.

Good luck for Thursday.

[zebo]

Interesting, I was wondering how they would deal with those who got a better algorithm grade, thanks to the hard work of previous cohorts, than their supposedly more accurate teacher assessed grade. They're getting a double dip then! I wonder if they will be able to appeal to the teacher assessment!

[sherrardk]

Thanks RR, but boy #2 is too laid back to stress over it.

My concerns are for borderline students and for all of the students missing out on something else (actually getting their grades at the same time and celebrating with friends). Poor *** have had a crappy time of it.

[fiction-factory]

The exam boards should surely just keep the algorithm results to themselves. Why issue them? It's far better that no-one gets a false overgrading. Won't it just lead to arguments- Jack and Amy both got teacher predicted Cs but the algorithm gives Jack a B and Amy a C. Amy could argue discrimination and appear tearful on TV with angry parents saying it's not fair and affecting her mental health

[Togo]

//Amy could argue discrimination and appear tearful on TV with angry parents saying it's not fair and affecting her mental health//

Do you mean on the Beep Beep See main news slot?

[fiction-factory]

Channel 4 too, and phone ins on 5 live- Justice for Amy. She'll tell us in a posh voice how she's sowwww working class but worked sowwww hard and feels like she has had her future stolen

[Mamyalynne]

Can Amy spell though? ;-)

[Fibonacci]

I don't understand what Al Gore's rhythm has to do with exam grades :-)

[Togo]

//Al Gore's rhythm//

Haha.....Gag of the week. The A*+ Stew Dents would not "get it".

[wiltsman]

I can't Trump that Fibonacci!

[douglas9401]

An inconvenient strewth.

[Old_Geezer]

Why not just give them all A+++++ and get it over with ?

[Cloverjo]

Sorry to be flippant on such a serious subject but I loved Richard Osman’s tweet from this morning.

“ Gavin Williamson live on BBC Breakfast right now. Or, as he calls it, DDE Breakfast.”

[jourdain2]

I can't understand how such a mess could have been made either. Granddaughter No.1 sat 2 GCSEs a year early (History and French) to lighten the load next year - like me she is lousy at Maths and needs to concentrate on it. She got an 8 and a 7 in her mocks (and a 9 in last year's English paper which she sat at the same time as part of an assessment process). So, there should be no problem - but now these good grades are going to be looked at askance.

Interestingly, results from all over Europe (where exams took place) seem to suggest that the bright, motivated kids who concentrated during lockdown (nothing else to do) have produced an upsurge in top grades. Another idea to contemplate and may offset some worries.

[Cloverjo]

Why on earth couldn’t they have found a way to let them sit exams as they did in Europe? No other country is going through this mess.

[gness]

Exactly, Clover......sitting exams would have been the sensible way.
These kids have lost so many experiences that they'll never be able to have again and I feel for them.

It's not difficult though, Jourdain to know how such a mess could be made when you look at who is doing the making.

[jourdain2]

Couldn't agree more! I was screaming 'sit the exams' at the time. The schools were empty, spacing easy, marking could have been adjusted to suit bits of course missed.

Sadly, I think any politicians would have made an equally shambolic mess - all of them wanting to prove something or other.

[sherrardk]

I can’t understand how the grades arrived at by algorithm, that were supposed to be published on Thursday, are now not ready.

[Cloverjo]

Maybe they tweaked the algorithm and had to start again?

[douglas9401]

Is it possible, just possible, that the whole world is run by incompetent, entitled pots of toss who rely on ordinary folk seeing what needs to be done and doing it without obliterating everything within wrecking distance?

It's certainly getting worse as each day passes.