Teachers’ strikes: A level results won’t be adjusted for strikes despite 50,000 facing lower grades 🔴 Exclusive from poppyeh:
, as experts warned 50,000 pupils are set to miss out on top grades next week.
Ofqual, the exams watchdog for England, will make no special allowances for pupils whose teaching was affected by eight days of industrial action in 2023 as it attempts to bring grades back down to pre-pandemic levels,Experts are warning of an increase in the number of appeals due to the correction, but any disruption caused by walkouts will not be taken into account.
A source close to Ofqual highlighted that students have been told to brace for slightly harsher grade boundaries this year, and that it is in pupils’ interests for top marks to be rewarded to those that most deserve them. They said that while the regulator was sympathetic to students impacted by strikes, fiddling with the criteria this late in the day would also cause huge amounts of uncertainty for pupils set to receive theirThe source added that Ofqual was incapable of producing a specific algorithm to offer support to students most affected by this year’s walkouts, since similar efforts to do so for pupils most affected during the pandemic failed.
Around 45 per cent of all A Level grades were either an A or an A* in 2021, while this year’s set of results will likely see the figure slump to around 25 per cent following a two-year process of grade deflation.
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