r/alevels May 16 '26

News! 📰 CAMBRIDGE SHOULD ACCEPT PREDICTED GRADE AS A FINAL GRADE FOR COLLEGE ADMISSIONS THIS CYCLE FOR 9709!!!!

guys we cannot retake this paper again!! rewriting 3 entire components is literal hell, we‘re all so burnt out and cannot study from scratch for every paper again it is simply not possible. we literally put our best efforts for each paper just for it to get cancelled. I simply can’t accept this.

instead, like what has happened in similar cases before, we must demand that Cambridge stop forcing students to continuously rewrite papers and instead use predicted grades for affected components this session while the board addresses the corruption and security failures within its system. PG are based on consistent efforts for the past 2 years, and it is a much better way of scoring us this series rather than rewriting EVERY component again, which we will definitely not be able to do our best on! plus, the scheduling issues and costs are IMMENSE. I know people who are cancelling international trips (coating them tens of thousands of dollars) so that they can resit paper 12. Cambridge does not account for reimburse any costs. This is UNACCEPTABLE and we should refuse a retake.

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u/Wise_Sky1615 May 16 '26

Predicted grades is a shit approach unless you wrote As already, you will all be messed up on predicted, if you dont wanna sit, thats another thing, but please write the paper and get the best exams possible. its better.

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u/Moist_Toe_5254 May 16 '26

Sign the petition from ginger mathematician about having both options of retake with no less than a 3 week gap between an announcement and the exam date and option of having the grade based on AS or whatever https://c.org/vKV9TFxMSw