Submitted on Wednesday 27th May 2020
Rejected on Thursday 9th July 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Move GCSE and A-Level Results Day forward to the earliest possible date.
We would like the Department for Education or the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) to ensure that GCSE and A-Level students receive their calculated grades as soon as possible.
We feel that this is necessary simply to reduce uncertainty. Making students wait until the traditional results days in August to receive their calculated grades (which in the case of this year is simply not necessary) leaves only two months for students to decide whether to partake in the proposed exam series in October and then to prepare for those exams, and that just isn't enough time. Furthermore, results days and the days leading up to them are usually days not of excitement but of anxiety, and by ensuring that students receive their grades as early as possible this will help to reduce that anxiety.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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The Department for Education has been announcing how this year's A-levels and GCSEs will work, but decisions about examinations and assessments in England, including when results are issued, are a matter for Ofqual and the exam boards, and are not a matter for the UK Government or Parliament.
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