17th August: Reportedly A-Level and GCSE students in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland will be handed exam grades as predicted by their teachers.
Previously only Scotland was said to get grades given to students by the teachers instead of the ones Cambridge gave, but now Wales, England, and Northern Ireland are also being given grades on the basis of what their teachers gave them earlier.
Ayesha Omar speaks up for the unfair A-Level grading
Both Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Education Secretary Gavin Williamson decided to tell Cambridge to grant grades to the students on the basis of grades given to them by their teachers as predicted grades.
This became possible because of the huge outcry of all students and their families after receiving grades that they did not deserve.
CAIE’s unfair grading system in 2020
Many students were downgraded and some were even given better grades than what they deserved by Cambridge, so their grading process isn’t clear like previous years. No one has truly understood how they have gone about giving grades to students this year.
In England, around 40% of the grades were downgraded due to which many students didn’t fulfill the requirements of universities they had applied too, which makes them fear about maybe taking a gap year.
All private students had to take a gap year this year because Cambridge could not facilitate them by taking exams or accepting predicted grades.
GCSE and A-level autumn exams offered in all subjects
What Cambridge doesn’t understand is that for most students who are serious about their studies and achieving goals, a gap year is no less than a nightmare.
Holly Barber, an 18-year-old from Bradford who was downgraded from A, A, A to B, C, E who told Sky News “the government has completely ruined a lot of kids’ futures”.
Scotland was the first country to shift to the predicted grades given by teachers rather than accepting those that were officially given by Cambridge.
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