Cancel UK IGCSE and IB exams in summer 2021 & provide CAGs for everyone.

Rejected 15 signatures

What the petition asks

Bring into line exam entries for all students in 2021 as currently GCSEs and A-Levels are cancelled, but students studying for IGCSEs & IB in the UK currently will take the exams. All exams should be cancelled to make it fair to anyone taking exams in 2021.

It is unfair to those who were due to sit GCSEs in 2021 as there are students, mainly from the private schools, who are still able to sit the exams and these grades because they will be actual, it will make them more valuable. Secondly, it is unfair for students who are due to take IGCSEs / IB to have to take the exams despite being in the same position, i.e. not in face to face school, which potentially disadvantages them in an exam situation. The government needs to make it equal for all.

Why it was rejected

It asked for something that is not the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.

Decisions about courses and assessments that are delivered by independent educational institutions, as opposed to state schools, are a matter for individual exam boards and educational institutions, not the Government or House of Commons.

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Timeline

17 Jan 2021	Petition opened for signatures
27 Jan 2021	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 15

Status Rejected

Rejected 27 Jan 2021

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