Neilds
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What are people's thought on these this year? Apparently there has been a 75% rise in the amount of A and A* grades since 2019 (last time exams were taken). Given that they would have been home schooled for the majority of the school year and had numerous disruptions for CV-19, should the results be this high? Are we setting the kids up to fail by giving them false expectations for University and will they struggle with high levels of dropouts?
I have no children and never did A levels myself, went straight into RAF on a Apprenticeship so may not be the best to judge this but I can't see how these high grades are possible after the past year or so. I would be interested to hear from anyone with first hand experience to see how these grades were reached, were they assessed on the whole syllabus or just what they actually managed to finish?
PS = Please do not lower this thread into the "Exams were much harder in my day" argument.
I have no children and never did A levels myself, went straight into RAF on a Apprenticeship so may not be the best to judge this but I can't see how these high grades are possible after the past year or so. I would be interested to hear from anyone with first hand experience to see how these grades were reached, were they assessed on the whole syllabus or just what they actually managed to finish?
PS = Please do not lower this thread into the "Exams were much harder in my day" argument.