Change A-Level and GCSE grades to not be awarded by ranking student ability

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

To have A-levels and GCSEs to be graded through personal attainment, rather than comparing student’s grades within the class. This is more fair, as the student’s personal effort is considered instead

Comparing student ability is unfair practice as it depends on the class and school. Ranking students involves a teacher bias, meaning that instead of student ability being based on personal attainment, it’s subject to the teacher’s belief- even if it is based on previous data.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

You may wish to sign this petition which calls for a very similar action: Review the decision to use previous data to calculate exam grades.

Timeline

3 Apr 2020	Petition opened for signatures
27 May 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 27 May 2020

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