The GCSE results for English, were they right?
All the uproar about the GCSE English results can’t have escaped you’re attention! The fact they changed the grade boundaries just two weeks before the results were published. There has been resent concerns in the rise of C grades and this meant that the board quickly had to produce closer predictions for this subject.
After these particular concerns the board responded a day later and they said that the proposed grades were fair and they had no need to change them.
As a result of this, when the results of the letters were produced, Ofqual’s chief regulator, Glenys Stacey was faced with a call to resign, and many people strongly agreed with is for example John Townsley (a head teacher and former board member) told us exclusively that “Glenys Stacey should resign” this is all because Ofqual were seen to be applying too much pressure to the awarding body about bringing the amount of C grades down!
However, Ofqual said that the letters produced were correct and it was something that they had to do to make sure that the standard of results maintained but also that they reflected on the past years results.
Although at a school in Wales it came about that hundreds of students were expected to get higher GCSE English grades because of this the education minister demanded that they had a remark and in Wales this is allowed where as in England
Following this, Dennis Opposs who is the director of standards at Ofqual wrote a letter to Edexcel on 7th August because he was concerned about the results predicted as they were eight points higher and because of this they had to quickly change the results to make sure that they were a lot closer to the predictions, but they were moved a lot more than they normally are!
Now if Ofqual are still wanting to change the grade boundaries then the English requirement to get a C would be 65/96 and this is 10 marks higher than in January!!
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