Submitted on Wednesday 12th August 2020
Rejected on Wednesday 19th August 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Need a fairer system for this year’s GCSE & A Level result.
Because of coronavirus, students who couldn’t take exams are having our results decided by a computer algorithm, which doesn’t look at our individual performance and marks us down for which school we went to.
For a lot, the algorithm doesn’t even consider what our own teachers predicted we’d get.
Worst of all, pupils from poorer schools, with lower results historically, are due to get automatically marked down by the software. Poorer pupils get marked down because of where they live and the school they go to, with their individual efforts and performance disregarded and their teacher’s assessments ignored. How can this be right?
Government must ensure there is:
No “marking down” of individual pupils based purely on them having gone to a less good school
A free appeals system open to any pupil
More weight given to our own teachers’ assessments, as they are better placed that an algorithm to judge us as individuals.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
You want the system for setting students' grades to be made 'fairer' by don't specify what steps you want the Government to take to achieve this.
You may however wish to sign one or more of these petitions which relate to this issue:
Review the decision to use previous data to calculate exam grades: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/306773
Review the standardisation of grades so state school pupils aren't disadvantaged: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/325422
Remove Ofqual's moderation of 2020 results based on schools previous performance: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/328957
Reverse all exam grades back to teacher’s own predictions: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/334491
Allow free and accessible appeals of GCSE and A Level calculated grades: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/334013
Work with regulators and exam providers to clarify exam arrangements for 2021: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/312570
You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:
www.gov.uk/coronavirus
www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
The Government has also created an online service to help you find out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support
You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips
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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