>> In deciding whose grades get reduced and by how much, they have considered the previous
>> SATS results and school averages of each local cohort. So some entrants have had much
>> bigger adjustments than others. The worse the school, the greater the chance that the arbitrary
>> grade will be below what they are shooting for.
>>
>> Looked at from the point of view of a student who has an offer based
>> on grades that they know they have to work towards and achieve to take up
>> the place, when they end up with grades that are both below the offer and
>> significantly worse than forecast and or mock results, they are going to feel cheated -
>> justly in my view.
Two local colleges. One a public school has had their best results ever. No surprise as they have class sizes of 8. Local state sixth form in a poor area which is obliged to take all levels of students and therefore has had historically mixed SATs has had its worst results ever. They maintain that their mock have proved to be accurate in predicting results previously achieved yet the whole cohort has been marked down with not one A grade awarded to the school when they normally achieve about 15%.
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