Review the class-biased A-Level 2020 grading algorithm immediately.

Rejected 20 signatures

What the petition asks

The algorithm used to determine the A-level 2020 results has heavily impacted young people from poorer areas, schools and disadvantaged backgrounds regardless of their predicted grades. It unfairly lowers their grades, preventing them from accessing universities and socially climbing.

The grades of students attending affluent colleges and sixth forms are more likely to have been increased, whilst the results of students in lower social-economic situations or schools are being downgraded (The Guardian).
As a result, this reflects a view that only the rich are intelligent or worthy of A* and As, undermining the hard work of thousands of students for something beyond their control.
It is classism.
It is wrong.
The government must amend this error immediately.

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 20

Status Rejected

Rejected 20 Aug 2020

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