A Levels & GCSES 2021 should be OPEN - BOOK and have REDUCED CONTENT (COVID-19)

It would benefit the students’ mental health & their grades to have open-book exams & reduced content. Globally, 1 in 5 students already suffer with a mental health issue, depression & anxiety are the top 2 offenders. Professor Elliot Major stated that “pupils are set to lose at least a third of teaching time for their courses.” Furthermore, students from disadvantaged backgrounds may have been affected more by COVID-19 resulting in them falling even further behind their counterparts. Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union: “all exams – including primary school Sats – would have to be slimmed down in 2021. “Any idea that GCSEs and A-levels in 2021 can just be the same as they were in 2019 is profoundly wrong,”