Submitted on Thursday 1st March 2018
Rejected on Monday 12th March 2018
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Award Grade 6 on 9-1 Foundation GCSE Maths papers
The June 2017 9-1 GCSE Maths Foundation papers from Edexcel, AQA and OCR have grade 5 boundaries of 66%, 66%, and 58%. The November 2017 papers were 60%, 65%, and 50%. Given the difference from grade 5 to full marks, it is a lack of recognition of pupils who gain higher marks, ie. a grade 6.
An example of how this can disadvantage a pupil is that the foundation-higher crossover questions on the Edexcel papers equated to 70 marks in June 2017. This means a student on the higher paper could've answered these ONLY and dropped two marks in the process to receive a grade 5, whereas a foundation pupil could have gained full marks on these and all their other questions and only obtained a 5.
I must highlight that papers do not need to be more difficult as a result, only that students more capable than others should be recognised accordingly and not left at the peril of the school's choice of foundation or higher.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
This isn't the responsibility of the Government or Parliament. Exam boards are responsible for setting grade boundaries.
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