GCSE and A level exams pushed back by 3 weeks

GCSE and A level exams pushed back by 3 weeks

A-levels and GCSEs in 2021 for England will go according to plan. However, with reduced content and the date pushed 3 weeks.

GCSE and A level exams mostly now will commence from 7 June. To make up for lost teaching time

However, schools want to know more. The plan B of full cancellation of exams like in 2021/

Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said plan b exam plans will be produced later this term for "all scenarios".

"Exams are the fairest way of judging a student's performance so they will go ahead, underpinned by contingency measures developed in partnership with the sector," said Mr Williamson.

Results days

The modifications to exams from Ofqual qualifications watchdog -

include no field trips from geography while reducing the areas needed to be covered for English literature.

While Williamson says the results will be on the same day / week as 2021

24 August for A-levels and 27 August for GCSEs.

The universities minister has already said that universities could change their autumn term dates if they needed to accommodate school exams being pushed back.

The challenge is that one in five secondary schools sending home pupils because of Covid 19.

Teachers' unions have warned about the lack of time to cover exam courses - (They always do) and challenged whether exams can be fair when students in different parts of the country will have faced different levels of disruption to school. - Trade unions want exams to be cancelled again!