Allow Year 12 and Year 10 students to have extra credit for their exams.

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Mr. Williamson announced that exams will go on as usual next year, however, for the students that will be returning back an sitting exams after missing many months of teacher-led studies, it will be much more difficult.

Some students will have acted as carers for their parents or siblings who are vulnerable in the current climate. Other students will have had to self isolate for weeks or months before the lockdown and schools shutting. The government should allow students to get extra credit for their exams due to all of these conditions. It is unfair for students to be expected to achieve their target grades with the current climate interrupting their studies.

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. Ofqual has launched a consultation on 2021 exams and assessments, which you can read about here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ofqual-launches-consultation-on-2021-exams-and-assessments

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

Reduce curriculum content for year 10 & 12 students who will sit exams in 2021: Reduce curriculum content for year 10 & 12 students who will sit exams in 2021.

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

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

www.gov.uk/coronavirus
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

The Government has also created an online service to help you find out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support

You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips

You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/

You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Find out more: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/

Timeline

9 Jun 2020	Petition opened for signatures
9 Jul 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 9 Jul 2020

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