Reply to: A Level Screw Up

[d000hg]

Not everyone got really great grades.

I heard complaints that some parents and pupils thought they had been downgraded due to the teachers being biased against them.

Also studies have shown that teachers have a habit of downgrading BAME pupils exam grades.

But they got whichever was highest, predicted or algorithm grade. Although the algorithm still relied on teachers' student rankings of course. I would say teachers can generally tell who knows the subject and further are on the pupils' side, even the ones they don't like.

There may well be a systemic bias BUT let's recall A/A* grades increased about 50% comapred to 2019, and failures decreased about 90%, which is likely to overcompensate I would suggest.

Without an actual exam, parents are always going to complain their wonderful darling was 'cheated' out of what they deserved. But parents are horrendously biased... most likely those kids would've done as badly as their results suggest in the exams.

[SueEllen]

Everyone got really great grades without having to do any work, seems like a Labour policy anyway.

Not everyone got really great grades.

I heard complaints that some parents and pupils thought they had been downgraded due to the teachers being biased against them.

Also studies have shown that teachers have a habit of downgrading BAME pupils exam grades.

[d000hg]

Everyone got really great grades without having to do any work, seems like a Labour policy anyway.

[d000hg]

What age will 16 and 17 year olds be next year?

And the year after?

The poll was "tomorrow" not "next year or maybe the year after that". Easy to get confused.

[Paralytic]

Why would they?

What age will 16 and 17 year olds be next year?

And the year after?

[SueEllen]

Why would they?

whoosh....

[Paddy]

I know its the mash joke article, but the reality is that the public loves a Tory government.

Unconditional love like only a mother can love a delinquent child.

[Old Greg]

I know its the mash joke article, but the reality is that the public loves a Tory government.

Of course they do. The government is doing such a great job.

[SimonMac]

Did they ask all the 16 and 17 year olds?

Why would they?

[CheeseSlice]

Did they ask all the 16 and 17 year olds?

Doubt it, they probably just use an algorithm to predict their voting intention

Full article here via Yahoo news

The Conservatives are up in the polls despite being heavily criticised for their response to the coronavirus pandemic and the handling of the exam results.

Tories currently have 43% of the vote compared to Labour's 36%, according to the latest YouGov/Times voting intention figures.

The Conservative party has increased its support by 3% from last week, with Labour falling by 2%.

The Tories managed to gain votes despite the ongoing criticism over their handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which saw yet another u-turn on wearing face masks in schools on Tuesday.

[SueEllen]

I know its the mash joke article, but the reality is that the public loves a Tory government.

Did they ask all the 16 and 17 year olds?

[CheeseSlice]

Dad furious at Tories over exam results still going to vote for them next time

I know its the mash joke article, but the reality is that the public loves a Tory government.

[darmstadt]

******* dickhead:

“Let’s be in no doubt about it, the exam results we’ve got today are robust, they’re good and dependable for employers,” Boris Johnson told reporters on 13 August.

During a live address to pupils at a secondary school in East Midlands this afternoon, he blamed a “mutant algorithm” for the fiasco.

“I’m afraid your grades were almost derailed by a mutant algorithm,” he told them,” said Johnson. “I know how stressful that must have been for pupils up and down the country.

[vetran]

I am me.

You are my Russian sockie.

That should be too embarrassing to admit!

[vetran]

So the uni courses many applied for are now massively oversubscribed. Wow what a cluster f.

except of course all the foreign students won't come for a year or two.

20% grade inflation thanks to those nice teachers and the government couldn't fix it either. One despairs.