Award students their centre assessment grades for A-levels and GCSEs

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

The Government should overturn the recent A-level grades and upcoming GCSE grades, which are predicated on a flawed algorithm seeing 40% of A-level grades being marked down. Instead students should be awarded their centre assessment grades - a more accurate prediction of individual performance.

40% of A-level grades were marked down using a flawed algorithm, which takes into account the performance of the centres that the individual attended from previous years. As a result students were not awarded their centre assessment grades,
which were arrived at carefully and in good faith by teaching staff who taught and knew the student. The disregard for teachers and students alike, as well as the discrimination towards those from less affluent backgrounds is unfair and should be rectified.

Why it was rejected

The UK Government or Parliament was already taking the action it asked for.

Since you started your petition the Government has announced that GCSE and A-level students will receive their centre assessment grades: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/gcse-and-a-level-students-to-receive-centre-assessment-grades

Prior to this announcement being made, we had published the following petitions, calling for similar actions to your request:

Reverse all exam grades back to teacher’s own predictions: Reverse all exam grades back to teacher’s own predictions

Review the decision to use previous data to calculate exam grades: Review the decision to use previous data to calculate exam grades

Timeline

13 Aug 2020	Petition opened for signatures
20 Aug 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 20 Aug 2020

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