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GCSE and A-level students will be told in advance what is on their exams and will be “ graded more generously, ” in accordance with plans expected to be presented by the Department of Education.
- Students with an asterisk in their grade must be served by colleges.
- Examination boards will inform schools which subject areas will be covered in assignments
- Some colleges have also started lowering their entry degree requirements.
GCSE and A-level students will be told in advance what is on their exams and will be “scored more generously” next summer, it has been revealed.
According to plans expected to be unveiled by the Department of Education and the exam regulator, students whose teaching time was interrupted will be treated differently.
Some may receive grades with asterisks next to them to indicate to colleges that they should look kindly on certain applicants.
Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of GCSE students are also expected to be informed of their exam topics in advance.
Universities have also begun lowering their entry degree requirements for certain courses in response to learning loss caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
GCSE and A-level students will be informed in advance what is on their exams and will be ‘graded more generously’ next summer, it has been revealed
It had been speculated that the GCSE exams in England would all be canceled together, following the examples set in Wales and Scotland.
Next year’s exam boards will have to tell schools which subject areas will be covered in GCSE and A-level documents so that teachers can prepare students to answer particular questions.
It comes after Education Minister Nick Gibb said earlier this month that the government was working to ensure tests were “fair” and that more details would be released soon.
A Whitehall source told The Telegraph: ‘This has been intensively scrutinized over the past few months.
‘Ministers, Ofqual, examination boards: all working together trying to work together to create a package to compensate and compensate children who have isolated themselves.’
According to plans expected to be unveiled by the Department of Education and the exam regulator, students whose teaching time was interrupted will be treated differently. In the photo: Secretary of Education Gavin Williamson
Wales was the last UK country to halt its exam program for next year, after the summer 2020 grading system in England and Scotland was turned into a sham over computer-calculated grades.
Scotland has said that its National 5 exams, equivalent to the GCSEs, will be replaced by assessments next year.
So far, exams in England have been delayed for three weeks to allow students to catch up, despite union demands that they be dropped entirely.
A GCSEPod survey of 2,649 16-year-olds found that 66 percent of teens would consider knowing about the issues beforehand as a very fair measure to participate.
Additionally, 67 percent said they would like the scores to be more generous, while 26 percent said they would like more options about which questions to answer on the test.
The University of Surrey has said it will lower its entry requirements by one degree for most undergraduate courses starting next year.
However, courses such as Veterinary Medicine and basic courses will be exempt from that policy.
Earlier this month, the University of Birmingham also revealed that it planned to lower the entry requirements for 2021 by one degree.
