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What doesn't quite make sense, is the fact that these students sat 'mock' examinations earlier in the year. Presumably, these 'mock' exams are based on an empir
by dynamite-ready 6y ago
What doesn't quite make sense, is the fact that these students sat 'mock' examinations earlier in the year. Presumably, these 'mock' exams are based on an empirical standard, similar to the one used for the 'final' exam. So the first question is, why weren't these 'mock' results the main anchor for these derived results?
- corin_ 6y agoThe problem with mock exams is that they don't follow any national rules on how they're used. Some schools do them in November, some in March. Some teachers mark them having not been trained in A Level marking. Some schools may do mocks in exact exam conditions, others might not bother with one part of the test, or have them done without supervision. Some teachers grade them accurately, some intentionally grade them harshly to motivate their students to study. Etc.
- dynamite-ready 6y agoI suppose teachers never had a duty to communicate that to the students before, but that's going to be a pretty important detail in the coming weeks. I doubt many parents would have been made aware of the precise meaning of 'mock' examinations results either. The next question then, was whether this emergency scheme was tested against results from previous years, rather than fashioning the algorithm to match results from previous school years.