GCSE

GCSE and A-Level pupils face being given WRONG grades

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GCSE and A-Level pupils face being given the wrong grades due to teachers manually inputting thousands of scores into AQA exam board’s online system that is ‘ripe for human error’. Concerns have been raised about its ‘grade entry portal’, in which marks have to be put in one-by-one. AQA’s method has left school staff horrified … Read more

Pupils who disagree with predicted A-level and GCSE grades may not be able to sit exams in autumn

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Students who disagree with their predicted A-Level and GCSE grades may not be able to sit exams in the autumn to try and amend them, it has been reported.      Due to the coronavirus lockdown, exams regulator Ofqual has instructed teachers to provide grades for students which reflect the results they would have been most likely … Read more

GCSE and A-Level pupils will not be able to appeal against exam grades this year under new proposals

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GCSE and A-Level pupils ‘will not be able to appeal against exam grades this year… and will be told to RE-SIT tests in the autumn if they are unhappy’ Exam regulator Ofqual propose to stop appeals against A-level and GCSE results Students will be graded by teachers after exams cancelled due to coronavirus Ofqual says … Read more

Coronavirus outbreak could see schools forced to delay GCSE and A-Level exams

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Britain’s third coronavirus patient died from the disease last night as the UK reported its biggest daily jump in cases yet. The male patient, aged over 60, died at the specialist unit for infectious diseases in North Manchester General Hospital. Health chiefs said the man, who had recently returned from Italy, had ‘significant underlying health … Read more