GCSE results today

[anonymous-user]

Good luck anyone (or more likely their kids or grandkids kids) getting GCSE results today



“The pass rate for this year's GCSEs in England, Wales and Northern Ireland has fallen since 2021, but remains higher than 2019”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/education-62649793

[z4RRSchris]

The pass rates are just a bell curve which they move each year depending on how hard the exams were / thick the kids are / teachers performance / mostly political gain from the education minister

the last two years they have been unable to do this due to teacher assessments.

We are thus back to the previous.

[fido]

How many ***'s can you get above a regular A-grade now? Once they get to 5 stars - they can just get rid of the A-E bit.

[anonymous-user]

What’s a star or not?

I thought it was just 7 8 or 9 and that were all As and 8 and 9 was an A*

[Gecko1978]

Makes zero sense to me what was wrong with A to F with some plus and minus suffix

[sim72]

Our residual scores for this year are practically identical to 2021 (within 0.04) which either means that we did excellently this year, or we didn't over-predict as much as some other schools last year. No obvious discrepancies inside subjects, either.

There are some oddities in grade boundaries between exam boards though, especially in Maths.

[deckster]

fido said:

How many ***'s can you get above a regular A-grade now? Once they get to 5 stars - they can just get rid of the A-E bit.

Tell me you don't know anything about GCSE grading, without telling me you don't know anything about GCSE grading.

[MiniMan64]

sim72 said:

Our residual scores for this year are practically identical to 2021 (within 0.04) which either means that we did excellently this year, or we didn't over-predict as much as some other schools last year. No obvious discrepancies inside subjects, either.

There are some oddities in grade boundaries between exam boards though, especially in Maths.

Oddities is one way of putting it. AQA are pricks is another.

[phil-sti]

El stovey said:

What’s a star or not?

I thought it was just 7 8 or 9 and that were all As and 8 and 9 was an A*

8 is an A*

9 is the top 1% in the subject so an A**

[sim72]

MiniMan64 said:

sim72 said:

Our residual scores for this year are practically identical to 2021 (within 0.04) which either means that we did excellently this year, or we didn't over-predict as much as some other schools last year. No obvious discrepancies inside subjects, either.

There are some oddities in grade boundaries between exam boards though, especially in Maths.

Oddities is one way of putting it. AQA are pricks is another.

Yes, I was being far too professional there, wasn't I?

Mind you, what do you expect from an exam board that can't even pay its examiners correctly / on time / at all? Or get results onto its portal properly?

[Biggy Stardust]

phil-sti said:

8 is an A*

9 is the top 1% in the subject so an A**

When all the kids were getting an A & they introduced the A* I cynically wondered how long it would be before they introduced A**; then it arrived.

All shall have prizes, nobody fails.

[anonymous-user]

phil-sti said:

El stovey said:

What’s a star or not?

I thought it was just 7 8 or 9 and that were all As and 8 and 9 was an A*

8 is an A*

9 is the top 1% in the subject so an A**

Not according to ofqual



I think the A** is a made up thing

[sim72]

Biggy Stardust said:

phil-sti said:

8 is an A*

9 is the top 1% in the subject so an A**

When all the kids were getting an A & they introduced the A* I cynically wondered how long it would be before they introduced A**; then it arrived.

All shall have prizes, nobody fails.

Well, apart from those that do.

However, a 9 is indeed a higher level than an A* used to be - you generally need high 80s+ for a 9, whereas the old A* was generally about 80%-ish.

The 9 is useful when you're looking at students applying for courses such as A-Level Further Maths.

[surveyor]

Well I have a delighted daughter and am a delighted dad.

The last 3 years have been hard on the kids - zoom learning, eventually - it took the school ages to work out how they could do it. They have missed out of lots social trips and interactions.

Congratulations to them all!