ALLOW RESITTING STUDENTS FROM 2020 TO RECEIVE UCAS PREDICTED GRADES THIS YEAR

Rejected 17 signatures

What the petition asks

Students resitting their A-level subjects from last year should be allowed to receive their UCAS predicted grades as their final grades this year as CAG's may be inaccurate due to how these students haven't been in a school environment in 10 months or more.

Students last year were given the option to sit their A-levels in the summer of 2021 to increase their grades if they didn't feel prepared for the autumn series. With the latest development of summer exams being cancelled and replaced with CAG's, these students are at a disadvantage unless they can have their UCAS predicted grades, which are what their university offers are based on. This would allow them to have a better chance of getting into university this year.

Why it was rejected

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

The Education Secretary has said that this year the Government will "put our trust in teachers rather than algorithms": https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2021-01-06/debates/D2A64DD9-6A6B-4EAB-8001-C3BACDE25B02/Covid-19EducationalSettings

Timeline

7 Jan 2021	Petition opened for signatures
14 Jan 2021	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 17

Status Rejected

Rejected 14 Jan 2021

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