Ofqual A Level Mock exam updates

Ofqual A Level Mock exam updates

if Ofqual, led by Sally Collier were to mark their own results. Surely they would have given themselves an A. Whereas an independent exam board would have given them a D. This is whey we have exams not run by schools themselves.

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Yet Ofqual are making a bad decision even worse by suggesting that their school mocks could be considered for their regulated exams. (Lets remind ourselves that Cambridge International A levels are not regulated by Ofqual. Many schools take The Cambridge International exams at A level.)

Ofqual are asking schools to basically print their own results. Yet again re iterating why we should have put on exams in the first place. Go round unions, open more buildings up, have younger less vulnerable invigilators, it could have been done. See a blog we did in April.

There was so much they could have done. Instead they wasted it.

These stipulated that the mocks had to be:

• Supervised, unseen and undertaken in conditions intended to secure the work as the student's own

• Either past assessments produced by the relevant exam board, or assessments developed by teachers

• Taken under timed conditions

• Completed before 20 March 2020, when schools and colleges were closed

• Marked using a mark scheme provided by the relevant exam board

• Graded in line with the exam board's examination standard

Ofqual added that student papers did not need to have been retained.

How the hell were Ofqual going to police this while schools simply gave them a mark they magic out the sky.

Of the time of writing, Ofqual have issued a new statement on this. ….