A group of headteachers and councillors has launched legal action against exam regulator ofqual and two exam boards over Junes GCSE English exam. It has served court papers to exam boards AQA and Edexcel, detailing the case for the exams to be regarded. The papers challenge the examiners' decision to raise the marks needed to get a C grade between January and June and have also challenged Ofqual's refusal to reverse the decision.
The group argues that changes to the grade boundaries meant that pupils with the same mark got a different grade and students had to resit the exam so that the exam boards could re-grade their exams in accordance to the new grade boundaries.
I think it is really unfair that Edexcel and AQA decided to change the grading boundaries because this caused students to not only have to re sit their exam but some students had to change their career and further education plans completely because the grades they got after the resit were not high enough for the job they wanted to get or the colleges they wanted to get into. AQA and Edexcel are two exam boards that some of my GCSE subjects are under which makes me a bit annoyed because after all my hard work at the end of year 10 could be wasted when I go to take my exams in year 11.
Like I have said before, we don't need changes to the education system if it's not broken don't fix it! what will it take for Michael Gove, Ofqual and everybody else to understand that! the government made a promise to provide children with an easy education but they are doing the complete opposite and instead making the lives of students miserable!
There is another rant I want to go on surrounding the topic of rising university fees but we'll save that for tomorrow as I hate people that go off the topic of the article they are writing!
The group argues that changes to the grade boundaries meant that pupils with the same mark got a different grade and students had to resit the exam so that the exam boards could re-grade their exams in accordance to the new grade boundaries.
I think it is really unfair that Edexcel and AQA decided to change the grading boundaries because this caused students to not only have to re sit their exam but some students had to change their career and further education plans completely because the grades they got after the resit were not high enough for the job they wanted to get or the colleges they wanted to get into. AQA and Edexcel are two exam boards that some of my GCSE subjects are under which makes me a bit annoyed because after all my hard work at the end of year 10 could be wasted when I go to take my exams in year 11.
Like I have said before, we don't need changes to the education system if it's not broken don't fix it! what will it take for Michael Gove, Ofqual and everybody else to understand that! the government made a promise to provide children with an easy education but they are doing the complete opposite and instead making the lives of students miserable!
There is another rant I want to go on surrounding the topic of rising university fees but we'll save that for tomorrow as I hate people that go off the topic of the article they are writing!
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