Submitted on Tuesday 13th October 2020
Rejected on Tuesday 20th October 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Cancel GCSEs to give students results representative of their studies
The Department for Education should cancel GCSEs permanently, not just for 2020 and potentially 2021.
As we saw with the 2020 results, pass rates were significantly higher than previous years. If England + Wales follow Scotland in cancelling 2021 GCSE exams, students due to sit the GCSE in 2022 will be at a disadvantage getting jobs, due to lower pass rates.
GCSEs also do not accurately represent the five years of hard work a student has put in through secondary school. Teachers know their students best; is it really fair to judge a student from one exam - what if they have a headache that day?
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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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You may wish to sign this petition which calls for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/326066
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