TheBoroBuzzard
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76,000 students get their grades upped from original results...guess that opens a can of worms when some of the English pupils don’t get what they expected..just give it the boo-hoos until they get what they want
Did you miss what it was all about then?
Exactly nicola champion of the young people saves the day again.Just another way from ‘oor Nicola‘ of trying to buy the votes of the young if another independence vote ever comes.
It is not the schools who are being marked it is the student. It is not the school who will be looking for a job in the near future, it is the student. It is not the school who the prospective employer or university will be judging on exam results- it is the student. I feel sorry for students, employers and higher education establishments. How on earth can they make a decision on who to accept.The schools who ‘historically perform poorly with low exam results’ where graded accordingly, as surely because of a pandemic doesn’t suddenly improve It and make it a better performer. True that 2 or 3% Of students have excelled In the school, and will miss out on better results, but it means giving the remainder higher grades than what they would have got had they taken the exam. yes, it is a horrible situation but poor performing schools shouldn’t be marked up due to the virus.
Why should even 1 student miss out on the grades they deserve because of past performance of the school? The only fair way was to go with the grades predicted by teachers, not some dodgy algorithm.
Massive point being missed here is the students didn't get to sit the exam so how is it fair to pick and choose by lottery who would and wouldn't have achieved their predicted outcome.Because (according to UCU), ony 16% of students achieve their predicted grades or better in A levels and Highers.
From the same report:Massive point being missed here is the students didn't get to sit the exam so how is it fair to pick and choose by lottery who would and wouldn't have achieved their predicted outcome.
Far fairer for most to be marked up rather than a few marked down.