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Students across Kent open GSCE results
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22/08/2024
Some students have been questioning the fairness of these exams as they reportedly been on the receiving end of harsher grading since the pandemic.
Finn Macdiarmid reports.
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Sitting the exams is hard enough, but only a flimsy envelope separating students from
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their results is enough to give anyone butterflies in their stomach.
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Over the years, General Certificates of Secondary Education, or GCSEs, have undergone many changes,
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from their introduction back in the 1980s to the addition of the A-star grade, then
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to adopting the numbers 1-9 for marks in England.
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Well now, 16-year-olds from Blackpool to Bournemouth are opening their GCSE results that will determine
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whether they pursue sixth form, apprenticeships or college, and here in Kent, some of North
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Fleet Technology Centre's bravest pupils opened their results on camera.
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These students might remember the difficult periods during and after Covid, where exams
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were cancelled in 2020 and based on teachers' predicted grades.
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Now back in my student days, I got easier exams thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic, but
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apparently grade boundaries have now reverted back to what they were like in 2019.
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Now some believe this might be potentially harsher, but it doesn't seem to have bothered
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the students here at North Fleet Technology College who are collecting their GCSE results.
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But the question remains, is that fair on this year's students?
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I think that we've got to look at central government and we have to think about what
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is actually best for the students sitting in our schools, giving them more security
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with regards to their results. And I will give you a clear example, we've just gone
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through a series of BTEC results here for the first time, which have been marked quite
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harshly and I think that's not going to help students move forward. So I think that we
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do need to reset and look at the whole curriculum and the whole assessment process to make it
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fairer for all students.
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Despite the reset, statistics have released that the results are similar to the previous
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year, with more than a fifth of entries awarded top marks. On the other hand however, the
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total pass rate has fallen this year, at a 1% drop in students receiving above a grade
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4 or C.
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The attitudes of the students here at North Fleet have been positive, with many looking
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forward to the future, and their teachers happy to see them succeed.
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Finn McDermott for KMTV in North Fleet.
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