The COVID Diaries – 139 16th August
Yesterday the English exams regulator Ofqual set out what constituted a “valid” mock exam for students appealing against A-level results in England. This was part of the response to the huge concern about how teachers’ assessed grades have been moderated by an algorithm that has penalised pupils at larger state schools.
But the regulator has now suspended those criteria, and further information will be published “in due course”.So the exams regulator is now reviewing its guidance on how to appeal against A-level and GCSE grades using mock exam results only hours after first publishing it.
One Tory MP described it as a “huge mess” that was “unacceptable”.