Cancel ALL potential UCAS exams for year 12. · petition

What the petition asks

Cancel UCAS exams in the event that schools open.The government needs to be able to understand that students simply cannot do this. There needs to be a prediction device set up by subject teachers, which will provide predictions based on class work, class exams, GCSE results and work ethic currently

The pandemic is causing a lot of stress and mental health issues to worsen, the idea of students resuming back into school, to then carry out exams so abruptly after being self taught, is ludicrous. It will be mentally and emotionally challenging for students to take on these additional pressures. Not only that but the results that are obtained from these exams are detrimental to those that are applying for uni’s across the UK. It’s an unfair bias that year 12 have to resume as normal to school.

Why it was rejected

It asked for something that is not the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.

Decisions about exams are a matter for exam boards and individual schools, and are not a matter for the UK Government or Parliament.

We have published the following petition, which you might like to sign:

Work with regulators and exam providers to clarify exam arrangements for 2021: Work with regulators and exam providers to clarify exam arrangements for 2021

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Timeline

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