Stop OFQUAL Giving Exam Years “Mini Assessments” in 2021. · petition

What the petition asks

This year’s GCSE and A-Level year groups were finally promised Teacher Assesed Grades after months of uncertainty and mixed messages about our exams. Now it’s been suggested that we might have mini-assessments, which are basically just exams with a new name, making things uncertain again.

It’s unfair to expect students to do standardised exams, when we have all been taught different content and with a different quality of remote learning. Considering everything else that has happened during our exam years, the only true reflection of what we could have achieved would come from our teachers, who know us and have been working with us for the last two years. No standard paper will be able to account for the circumstances we have all been though. Please use teacher assessed grades.

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 some of these petitions:

Cancel GCSE and A-levels in 2021 replace with Course Work and Teacher Assessment: Cancel GCSE and A-levels in 2021 replace with Course Work and Teacher Assessment

Base 2021 GCSE and A-Level Grades on Teacher Considerations and Mock Grades: Base 2021 GCSE and A-Level Grades on Teacher Considerations and Mock Grades

Give students the option to take exams or receive assessed grades for 2020/21: Give students the option to take exams or receive assessed grades for 2020/21

The Department for Education and Ofqual are consulting on the approach to awarding GCSE, AS and A level grades in 2021 following the cancellation of exams. You can find out more about this consultation here: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/consultation-on-how-gcse-as-and-a-level-grades-should-be-awarded-in-summer-2021

Timeline

11 Jan 2021	Petition opened for signatures
18 Jan 2021	Rejected by the Petitions Committee