Damien

There is no way this was going to end well.

The teachers grades caused an historic improvement in scores. Obviously not true. That isn't teachers giving nonsense grades to make themselves look good but seeing what they consider the true capacity of their students, at least as they see it, but exams don't test the true capacity of students. They're a one-shot moment. Some students do better than expected though talent, last moment cramming or a fortunate set of questions. More often students fall short due to stress, a bad day or a unfortunate set of questions.

The teachers grades are a best-case scenario for each students. They would therefore be inflated.

But to judge them by an algorithm is unfair too. It may in the aggregate prove to be more accurate but in doing that they ignore the individual. Students who outperform their cohort are smacked right back into line. You come from an area with underperforming students and therefore you underperformed and we do not care about your own work.

The only way to do this would be to give those children their months of education back. Then let them take the exams this winter. Bail out the Universities to miss one year of intake. Maybe do the same for the years underneath as well, offset the school year to allow everyone to catch up.

Because next year we have another problem. Another cohort of students taking their GCSEs/A-Levels having missed a large part of that education. Are we about to see the biggest drop in results in our recorded history?

The 2020 cohort are going to have great results. The 2021 will record a massive drop. This is not fair.

And every year underneath them have also missed months of education. You can't replace that with an algorithm and pretend it didn't happen.