Petition · past parliament

Adjust the content that current Y12 students are expected to sit next year.

Rejected 13 signatures

What the petition asks

The exam content urgently needs to be reviewed for 2021 A-Levels across the board.

We are proposing that the A-Level curriculum be adjusted to a more reasonable level. Current Y12's only got 6 months in 6th Form's or College before schools were closed and are expected to not have been impacted.
Current Y12 students, myself included, have both lost valuable education in the previous six months and lost motivation to continue working at the level we have been, in all surveys conducted around 80% of students have lost motivation to do the work.

Very few schools have been giving anything remotely close to the workload or general education that we would have otherwise received in the last 6 months.

Why it was rejected

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

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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

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Timeline

12 Aug 2020 Petition opened for signatures
19 Aug 2020 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 13
Status Rejected
Rejected 19 Aug 2020

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.