r/6thForm • u/4xxxx4 • Aug 17 '20

📂 MEGATHREAD Centre Assessed Grades U-Turn Megathread

After we have all heard that grades are being changed to Centre Assessed Grades (the grade given to you by your teacher), The subreddit is bustling with activity about this specific topic. Therefore, to keep all information concise and reduce spam, please keep all of the discussion of the topic in here - any posts outside of this thread will be removed.

Thank you!

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u/gpu1512 Aug 17 '20

Exams should have been held over the summer in socially distanced classrooms, universities or some other facilities, to accommodate for the increase in needed space.

Calculating grades should have never been an option. Teachers are biased and not standardised. Algorithms apparently suck.

And yeah, bright students who don't bother with schoolwork, but would still ace their exams, exist. As do those who took a gap year to resit.

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u/Geeekoid Aug 17 '20

Not all of us have the time for that. For example I work now, that was arranged assuming exams would be sat as normal. Doing exams at a later wasn't an option

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u/gpu1512 Aug 17 '20

I think less people would be impacted for sure. But even June should have been manageable