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Cancel Vocational Exams as you did A-Levels and GCSE exams

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

It’s only fair that vocational exams are cancelled like A-Level & GCSE exams as it causes unnecessary stress on those taking vocational exams, and schools where those are supposed to take place are either confused, struggling to find a way around letting students come in to take the exams or both.
It can be argued that whilst it’s frustrating that students do all this hard work and spent fine revising, making notes and so, to then not sit the exams at all and it all seems like a waste, it is deemed more unjust and more stressful to see that A-Level and GCSE students don’t have to sit their exams at all, and overall vocational course students have been treated differently, unjustly and assessed differently to A-Level and GCSE students

Why it was rejected

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

Timeline

5 Jan 2021 Petition opened for signatures
6 Jan 2021 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21
Status Rejected
Rejected 6 Jan 2021

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