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>Of course children have been hurt by this is practice, there are numerous cases of children getting down graded from their predicted results so badly they're h

>Of course children have been hurt by this is practice, there are numerous cases of children getting down graded from their predicted results so badly they're having University offer places withdrawn Yes. I understand there will be cases like this, but what numbers are we talking about? And you were never going to prevent circumstances like those. >we're talking straight A students getting demotd to Ds across the board because their school has a history of bad results, which are irrelevant to any given student right now. That's not irrelevant. Schools don't flip their standards from year or another. A bad school this year, will be a bad school next year. And many students are hurt by mark inflation. It isn't fair that one school will give out B, while another A+ for the same academic performance - and that certainly happens. There was a case in Canada some time ago where it came out that Universities were scoring high-schools based on performance of their alumni and normalizing the marks of new applicants based on those metrics. It was a small controversy, but what else are they going to do? The alternative is to assume that 'A' from one school is the same as 'A' from another - which is grossly unfair. >Oxford have decided to ignore results and honor previously given offers because the process is so untrustworthy. Good. Everyone understands that this is a weird time and everyone is trying their best. This is why this does not worry me one bit. I fully expect all schools that rely on these marks to be a little bit more understanding.

pjc50 6y ago
Marks aren't awarded by the school per se, they're awarded by one of the agencies such as AQA. This results in a lot of angry and upset teachers as the marks just received are a surprise to them too. The Scottish government SQA has already backed down on its "adjustment" and agreed to use estimated marks from teachers and mock exams.
- macspoofing 6y ago
  >The Scottish government SQA has already backed down on its "adjustment" and agreed to use estimated marks from teachers and mock exams. And you think that's more fair? Because to me that is a way worse method of ranking. Mark inflation exists and vary by school. That's a fact. Schools will low academic performance are more guilty of this because all schools and teachers will inevitably grade on a scale relative to other students in that school. Listen, you can do whatever you want. The reality is that there are more applicants than there are seats at the universities. You can give everyone an 'A' and it won't change the fact that the same amount of students are going to get those spots. The method adopted by the Scottish government punishes students for going to schools and having teachers that don't inflate their marks.

pjc50 6y ago

Marks aren't awarded by the school per se, they're awarded by one of the agencies such as AQA. This results in a lot of angry and upset teachers as the marks just received are a surprise to them too. The Scottish government SQA has already backed down on its "adjustment" and agreed to use estimated marks from teachers and mock exams.

macspoofing 6y ago
>The Scottish government SQA has already backed down on its "adjustment" and agreed to use estimated marks from teachers and mock exams. And you think that's more fair? Because to me that is a way worse method of ranking. Mark inflation exists and vary by school. That's a fact. Schools will low academic performance are more guilty of this because all schools and teachers will inevitably grade on a scale relative to other students in that school. Listen, you can do whatever you want. The reality is that there are more applicants than there are seats at the universities. You can give everyone an 'A' and it won't change the fact that the same amount of students are going to get those spots. The method adopted by the Scottish government punishes students for going to schools and having teachers that don't inflate their marks.