GCSE & A levels cancellation mistake

GCSE & A levels cancellation mistake

Most GCSE and A level pupils would have been self isolating revising for exams. Cancelling these exams was a real mistake. GCSE and A level exams are by their very nature a form of isolation. Exams are strict events and highly controlled. There are desks wide apart often in halls with plenty of space. Schools and exam centres have the space to put on exams while by their scale provide social distancing. Exams are not the end just a merely a guide to the pupil for what to do next. We have discussed how important exams are while they of course have their limitations. They provide a key opportunity for the exam candidate to show off their understanding and handle of their subject.

Exams are some of the first times children's actually feel they are getting the opportunity away from school and home to express themselves. While serving with the bureaucratic opportunity of being engaged with and graded by the state. The crazy idea of cancelling GCSE and A level exams for pupils who for the most part been focused on for two years has undermined a whole generation of pupils. Giving them the idea that the state is not on their side. Cancelling the exams on a whim with no discretion shows pupils at an impressionable age that the state will make it hard for them to show your best.

If there was anything to recruit anti establishment recruits the cancelling of exams is it. GCSE and A levels touch almost everyone in the UK. Surely these exams could have still had in some part been put on and not cancelled. Why cancel rather than postpone? After all one postpones school league matches because of weather. Why not GCSE and A level exams?