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Content for A-Levels and GCSE's must be Reduced

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

We're asking the Government to Consider further measures to reduce the amount of content in GCSE and A-Level examinations taking place in July 2021.
Due to the COVID-19 lockdown, many students have missed out on a huge chunk of learning, leaving huge gaps in their knowledge. We're asking the Government and/or Parliament to remove content from the GCSE and A-Level specification in all subjects, to give students a chance to progress further into their adult life/career. Without a content reduction, Grades could be considerably lower, once again linking to the fact that many students have had no teacher to pupil intervention.

Why it was rejected

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

You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: Reduce curriculum content for year 10 & 12 students who will sit exams in 2021.

Timeline

12 Oct 2020 Petition opened for signatures
6 Nov 2020 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21
Status Rejected
Rejected 6 Nov 2020

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