Petition · past parliament
Cancel GCSE's and A Levels, not postpone them.
Rejected
15 signatures
What the petition asks
pushing the exams forwards by three weeks creates unfair increased pressure on the students taking their exams, three weeks will not ever be able to make up for 6 months of lost school time. Continue and the countries academic levels will drop. Do you want to take that chance?
Students are outraged that GCSE's and A Level's are still continuing and the best the government can do is postpone them for three weeks, quite frankly parliament are being selfish, they are trying to do this for the 'best option' however logically it cannot work for us. You didn't listen the first time and so this is our request to you, listen to the people, this is a democratic society and if the choice solely effects the youth then let the youth decide. Thank you.
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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You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:
www.gov.uk/coronavirus
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
The Government has also created an online service to help you find out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support
You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips
You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/
You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.
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Timeline
| 13 Oct 2020 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 20 Oct 2020 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
15
Status
Rejected
Rejected
20 Oct 2020
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.