They had 5 months to organise a level and GCSE grades. How can you only do it last minute? It’s so stupid, and irresponsible

How can you fail an exam that was not even taken???

why tf would i want my mock grades anyway?? mocks are sat to see where you can improve. we hadn’t even finished the course.

Cancellation of exams was a huge mistake. Other countries were able to organise them by applying strict safety rules and there were no covid spikes recorded among the students sitting. And I say it again, Ofqual management needs to be replaced, urgently!

The bbc is confused. What are GSCEs? Pls proofread.

Boris promised us we would get well deserved grades and he just took the mick

Class discrimination. Can’t use algorithms to put a number/letter towards human beings.

Best part about this whole situation is that they had literal months to properly decide how to handle the grades situation. Glad to see procrastination extends to the highest level of government!

A total disgrace for students who are starting their career choice to be downgraded

So they didn't talk about the postcode lottery too.

Let's hope these students remember what this government have done when they go to the polling station.

Ofqual has had months to release a statement about appeals , they have no excuse . The rich and spoon-fed should not be able to juggle with the futures of the working class so easily Don't budget cut schools then partially base grades on school postcode and give worser grades to the most run down schools. Classism at its best

Well if you appoint someone called Gavin to education secretary, what do you expect?

1:04 ‘Our Teachers are qualified to give grade Your not!’ Oh dear

Me sitting here between GCSEs and A Levels sweating

The process they took was actually priceless. It's such a mess. 1. Firstly what they didn't even take into account is that not EVERY school sat mock exams NOR did they all sit the same exam. Some schools made their mock exams harder/easier. Some students did not even SIT EXAMS. 2. You cannot predict or think about what a student is going to get and then rank them. Just because someone is working at a 6 throughout the year, it doesn't mean they will get a 6. It's unpredictable. They could end up with a 9 for example. That's the reason this process is such a big issue, because you will never know what grade a person will get without that person sitting the EXAMS. It's basically testing the intelligence of 'not so able' students and students that go to a public school vs private schools. 3. It's unfair that the algorithm is choosing our grades. It's taking into account of the prior attainment of last year's 11. The GCSEs themselves is such such a mess aswell because they are made based on last years year 11s prior attainment. That's unfair to the year before and the year about to sit the exam. 4. Now they want to DELAY GCSE exams results. So we have to wait until September. QUICK UPDATE: Northern Ireland are now using predicted grades for Gcses. Not yet sure about england. What is your take on using teachers predictions QUICK UPDATE: Wales have also announced they are using predicted grades. Still waiting on England.

This is very unfair and messed up

My child’s grades where not estimated they were evaluated she had to do tests from her teachers in all subjects based on previous A level exams. Yet because she goes to a college with lower results her grades are down if the average down is 40%. So many socially disadvantaged children’s lives ruined. Remember that some marks have gone up so more than 40% have gone down. Quote I believe from winston Churchill “we will have the working class people grovelling at our feet”. Well done Boris

All these students could have done their tests - spread around in small groups around the empty schools.

Mess on exams and he mess with lifes too.

The whole exam structure is flawed and outdated anyway.

I already know my GCSE’s are going to be below a 4... i’m gonna breakdown when i open my results on thursday...

Dont delay it . Weve been waiting more than 5 months for this.How are we supposed to know what to revise and what resources to throw away.

I think we’re going to have a generation of stunted people in career development. 😐

BBC can't even spell GCSE? Solid reporting as ever....

Why results will be delayed will become anxious and tense students????

Unless you went to ETON OF COURSE....BORIS'S LAST SCHOOL WHERE HE GOT 12A*S, OF COURSE.

What happened to giving people the grades they deserve

Just a thought. With all the blame going on about A level grades, for this year why doesn't the Universities take the teachers assessment of grades.

What the hell is Cambridge education doing messing with students future is not good .. I'm definitely not going to recommend any other for this course now.. I'm really offended and upset. 🥺🥺

Upon hearing that GCSE results are gonna be much worse.. iv lost all hope 😔

Grade lives matter

I failed my mocks and worked hard to get what I needed, but I never got to do the exam. so in my situation I'm screwed

BBC, English, 2/10. It's GCSE, not GSCE as per title.

no I need my results on the 20th I haven’t even applied for college yet lol

Ah crap. I'm getting my grades on Thursday, and I'm expecting the worst.

Throughout this pandemic I realised how shit the U.K. is being prepared for big issues... everything from the start has gone down hill faster than you can say “brexit?” Lol I’m genuinely scared for the future of Britian and it’s people... this government clearly needs to do a whole do over or something because people are angry and need answers . All the people are getting are just worse and worse news by the months.

They really left this to the last minute

Hello reader, hope you have a fanatastic day. I'm super nervous about getting my results in a few days

Why results will be delayed will become anxious and tense students😟😕🙇🏻‍♀️

Ummmm wtf is a GSCE

THE WHOLE education system needs to be REFORMED. WHY IS ANYONE SITTING AN EXAM AT AGE 16? AND THEN HAVE TO SIT ANOTHER EXAM 2 YEARS LATER? WHAT'S THE POINT. WHATS THE POINT

The title is shameful, GSCE? Clearly someone needs to go back to school

If I were a student now, I would just retake the entire last year as it's not just about the grades but the important knowledge they also potentially missed 😞 and they would never miss that year later, an opportunity to put off growing up a little bit 😊

Son had A and B proposed by tutors, received C and C. What algorithm can come up with that? Now the appeals process has gone. Shambles. Absolute shambles.

Privatise the BBC make them work for a living.

First the IB and now the GCSE. A total disservice to the students who have put in the effort!

Trust the Teachers

My brother had a B in as level Physics, and they gave him a u!

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Predicted grades turn out to be a complete disaster and the only fair way is to have students to sit the actual exam. Can this be done? Of course it can be. 3 to 4 months from now, make ALL students to sit the real A level exam and delay starting year 1 courses at university till November. Reschedule University terms by compressing course curriculum, cancelling reading weeks and shorten Easter, Chrismtas and Summer holidays to 2 weeks each. Yes, this is alot of hassle but this can be done and is the fairest way possible.

Adults know that these results really don’t matter in real life

How can you be given a grade with no exam taken?

They spent “you’re” “your” whilst complaining about not getting good grades 😂🤦‍♂️

Title: "GSCE" 😂

It would be really stupid if they actually do results day considering that 97% people’s grades are based off an algorithm that’s completely failed for a level. If people get downgraded more severely this would cause massive outrage for the people doing GCSE and would also cause a bigger protest. They need to do a U turn!

So now we know the reason the exam grades downgraded were overturned , Ofqual found private educated students from such places like Eton were given higher estimated grades while disadvantaged students from public schools had grades downgraded so not so many students would not get into university because of covid 19 .

I Love the way Angela Rayner Put it, ``Get off you Backside`` and help support the young People they need More MP`s like her

Looks like I'm failing English language again.. Teacher had predicted me as grade 4, but I guess the government will probably downgrade it to a 3 😡

*GSCE* exams don’t even exist.....

It was the Labour Government and Unions who said teachers predictions couldn't be trusted.

Stop using the word 'deserves' your telling the kids they are entitled. Predicted is just that a prediction. They need to sit exams and work for their grades. The real world is not so giving.

What the government don’t understand is that these are people’s lives at stake these grades are for our futures most people are starting to give up now it’s sad

1:02 Can't capitalise a name, capitalises the word "teachers", uses and apostrophe incorrectly in the word "you're". I'd take whatever you given and be grateful for it.

Oh god I do GCSEs next year it’s going to be so messed up

you’re telling me that after 5 months of trying to figure out our grades, they wait until hours before to completely change the grading process smh tories out

What a mess!

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The issue is, to give grades to someone, they have to take them from someone else. They’ve already given out 2.4% more As than last time and if they start upgrading everyone’s grades and not downgrading anything the value of a levels will plummet and all future a level classes will be screwed over.

Not only was it difficult for me to get a job after graduating university, these students are not even getting through the door onto their courses. They are basically being condemned to retail, restaurant work when the high street is dying. It's such a shame for these young adults. I hope the appeals work. For those that come from wealthy families with both parents I'm sure it's fine though as their predicted grades won't be downgrades 3 grades.

keeping as many young people in stress , dispair and confusion and mentally engaged in negative government garbage and stupidity 🙄

When is the Gov going to stop creating injury, harm and loss, alarm and distress. Despot, tyrants.

I am an A-level student who got their results this year and I’m absolutely satisfied with my results they reflect the track that I was on and in my opinion on a very good representation of what I would’ve got in the exam I paid attention all of my lessons I did all my homework on time I was very hard-workingAnd I took school seriously throughout both of my years and I think that’s why I was given good grades because I showed interest and determination and the students then I’ll complaining of those who don’t do that much work in class don’t really care about homework don’t really revise at home and just hope to scrape by exams but now that the grades have been given in this way they want to use it as an excuse so I could have done better than I could have done this I could have done that I mean really it’s just excuses and if they would’ve paid if they would’ve paid attention paid attention and be hard and have been I would’ve been hard-working then that then they would’ve been given a better result. Sorry for how this is written I did it using speech recognition.

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Why was noone protesting when this was first announced? It was so obvious this would be a disaster, they are literally making results up!

How am I supposed to play a game when the rules are constantly being changed and they’re different from when I started playing?

Idk if they recorded it when I’m thinking, but I swear I got Apple news saying they are going or predicted grades now soo I think all is good - thing is some people will have done better than their mocks in the real thing and some will have done a lot worse - this is real life nothing’s perfect

Oh Jesus Christ... it’s not rocket science. For decades, Mock exams have been marked by generous teachers however never noticed because the actual tests were sat. This year is the first time when mock results are being used to predict actual grades. Randomly selected papers from each school were double checked and if the remark came back lower by 10% then the grades for the whole school dropped accordingly. The only thing this “postcode lottery” shite reveals is that the teachers in public schools are more generous when marking mock papers than in private schools. At every stage of my public school years, my mock results were higher than the actual results. Blame the teachers, not the government.

How the hell do you misspell GCSE? Its literally just four letters...

This is an utter shambles

Woah. Please explain this to me like im foreign cause this aint making sense.

I go to a school that has been high performing for the last few years so I think I'll get good grades

“With schools shut, exams had to be cancelled” Firstly schools did not shut, they remained open throughout with staff and pupils in class. Secondly public examinations remain the most socially controlled and distanced situation most people would be in. There was absolutely no reason to cancel any of the summer exams

I swear to god if results are delayed

Guess teachers aren't trusted. I mean introduce a performance based pay progression for teachers and expect a robust assessment framework... Bloody mess. Trust teachers... they know the students best. Exams do not a happy, productive member of society make.

IGCSE is also uncertain. I can't believe that my grades are very bad like that, my teachers know me better than they are.😞😞😞

Tweaking the appeals process/over putting their wrongs right!!?? Disgraceful

Wait for the gcse students

Its a sham that teachers did not access results instead of relying on a machine, and i hope these young people don't think that "U" turns are easy in later life.

They should have sat those exams regardless not received fake results this is just disgusting shame on the government regardless of COVID

I’m an adult student that went back to school to re take my English GCSE, I failed mine because I am dyslexic and didn’t get much help in school. Now I’m worried that I will fail again and won’t be able to advance in the career ladder

Grades don't always show how hard you work, which is what matters most

1:02 Obviously this student didn't do well, did he?

They should postpone GCSE and go back to the teachers grading system. Its completely unfair for A level, and if they keep going this way - then it's going to be even more unfair for GCSE.

GCSE The fact that even the BBC couldn't spell it correctly, "casts a dark shadow upon the entire British education system" - Raymond Fowler

I guarantee the more pressure that's piled on, they will have no choice but to LET EVERYONE appeal. At least up here in scotland, they apologised for their mistakes. Westminister have done nothing but mistakes, failure and misery for everyone involved.

They got what they got, so get over it .

bro what???? no let’s just have them tf

It sound good that England Education system is far more active then what it's happening in India.

Who is calling for the results to be delayed ? Is this another one like "scientists say" but you can never name the scientists ?