Submitted on Saturday 6th June 2020
Rejected on Thursday 9th July 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Cancel 2021 A-level and GCSE exams
Cancel 2021 exams and award predicted grades. Students in years 10 & 12 have already missed around 10 weeks of school due to the coronavirus pandemic and it‘s highly unlikely that they will receive any physical lessons until at least September, which results in a loss of almost 4 months of teaching.
This means that a large proportion of their subject knowledge is missing and it would be unfair to place them under pressure to perform in 2021 exams and compare their results to previous years. GCSE and A-level grades greatly influence a person’s future, by deciding what university they attend or if they are successful in a job application, and those taking part in 2021 exams are already greatly disadvantaged and will be disadvantaged for the rest of their lives if exams are not cancelled.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Decisions about exams are a matter for exam boards and individual schools, and are not a matter for the UK Government or Parliament.
We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:
Reduce curriculum content for year 10 & 12 students who will sit exams in 2021: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/320772
Work with regulators and exam providers to clarify exam arrangements for 2021: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/312570
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www.gov.uk/coronavirus
www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
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You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/
You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Find out more: committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/
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