Boris Johnson defends plans for teachers to decide exam grades - BBC News
The Prime Minister has defended plans for teachers to grade GCSE and A-level pupils in England this summer calling it a "good compromise".
The decision follows last year's exam fiasco when grades were decided by an algorithm.
This year grades will be decided by teachers using mock exams, coursework, essays and optional tests provided by exam boards. With so much time lost, pupils will only be assessed on what they've been taught.
Results will be published earlier in August to allow more time for appeals that are expected to follow.
The announcement follows similar moves in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. But there are concerns about the fairness of the approach, including the risk of grade inflation.
Sophie Raworth presents BBC News at Ten reporting by education editor Branwen Jeffreys.
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Why is my teachers cupboard now filled to the brim with bottles of wine
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@@paulettehardin1648 what is this
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Should have listened to Tywin Lannister. “Water, not wine!” They’ll be there a while...
So depending on the relationship between the teacher and the pupil, that will be the deciding factor of his/her fate.
No it's entirely based on evidence collected to support that child's grade. A teacher can't give a pupil a low score without evidence, and since principals must sign off on all grades going to exam boards it risks the school having to deal with parents and children contesting grades and potentially Ofsted knocking on doors. In short it isn't in any teachers interest to give a kid the grade they don't deserve - whether too high or too low.
@@darkflighter100 I’ve learnt first hand that this is not the case, the moderation teams are usually quite lazy as they have to do so many and the teachers always account for the relationships no matter how hard they try not to. Students who are more disobedient despite their abilities will get lower grades than they deserve.
@@bugofcake Yes true say as teachers are biased, its human nature. No matter how hard they try. Completely agree with you.
@@bugofcake no thats definitely inaccurate for you to say because this is really the first time an official moderation will take place unlike last year
Pretty much
Boris helps fill in BBC’s programming very well. He must be their top actor
We’re screwed. If I was a company I’d rather hire a person who sat an exam and got a 9 compared to someone who was predicted a 9.
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This is just a step closer to the brave new world dystopian future that awaits the coming generations where your job and status in society is largely going to determined based on a system set up by eugenicists , that is if we don't stop all this nonsense soon enough.
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If I were...
@@paulr9562 no u brit, in america that's how we say it dude
Most of my teachers hated me.... am I lucky covid wasn't around when I took mine. Poor kids...
We are all relieved that our teachers are doing our grades
Same here got schooled in youth offenders lol
@@Thomas-ok9ot somehow I doubt you speak for all, Thomas.
While it’s good for those who get along with their teacher, but for those that don’t it’s a horrible time.
@@PhoenixHomeEd pretty much everyone in my sixth form as well a most seem happy with it so they kind of do speak for most if not all.
Teacher: "Adam..... I like this pupil: 9 Nathan...... hate this one: U"
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They need evidence to give people grades, so it won’t work like that
@Finley Preen if you read the whole report, it not only says that they can use evidence from across the two years, but also that exam grades should be decided as late on as possible. I'm not saying there isn't room for unfair grading, but ultimately everything needs to be backed up with proof. I honestly don't think there could have been a fairer alternative
@Finley Preen Apologies I replied to the wrong comment
Imagine working super hard for 3 years, so the teacher gives u a high grade, just to be called by the others lucky and as u didn’t deserve that grade
3 years and on the day you can have the flu. If your grade means bragging, you have alot to learn
When the teacher says "You'll never amount to anything" and now they've got the power to back that up. conspiracy theorists said they'd come for your children what do you think they meant?
''If you tolerate this then your children will be next''
Is that what you think we do? Sit around condemning students based on their shitty behaviour instead on their own academic merits? Take off the tin foil hat you dunce.
@@Avinalaff Thanks for that single anecdotal example of your personal feelings. For a teacher you're not very intelligent are you, if you think that it's not possible for a teacher to have a personal vendetta against one of their students and act upon it you're a complete moron. We've all had 'that' teacher before, they exist.
It’s based off of work evidence and is peer assessed. Us kids are all buzzed 😊
@Patrick Swan This man gets it, GCSE Exam grades won’t be solely controlled by a single member with a QTS, it spans from Inclusion Assistants, Middle Leaders (Dept leaders) and SLT, thé P and then vetted by external agencies such as governor panels. It’s rich that people who probably achieved mediocre grades to downright Unmark-able scores state which contingency is fair or not.
My sister is a straight A student she’s moved schools and city recently so I doubt the teacher is going to grade her properly...
None of it matters once you turn 20. You can write whatever grades you want on your CV
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As someone who exceeded expectations, this is simply unfair
I agree, I was predicted D’s by teachers that hated my rowdy character but I came out with B’s. if they decided my grade I would have been f’ed
@@johnoe2807 yeah exactly congrats man, I was predicted same, ended up with Bs and only got 5 GCSEs but got A*AA at A level and am now at Lse studying law, something my teachers always doubted I’d do and never would have done if I didn’t do it on my own in the exams
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Sounds like a corrupt system to me.
More corrupt than an algorythm which gave better grades to private schools? Please explain to me how teachers deciding grades is worse than people who do well in public schools get bad grades over people who do average but are in private schools.
We’re all happy. Adults like you need to leave us kids alone if you’re gonna force us in exams
@@Thomas-ok9ot if your teachers hate you, you wil fail
@@242proPRODUCTUONS Popularity contest.
@@AJ-xv7oh So you think rich kids and kids of the 1% should do better because the alternative might be a popularity contest?
Remember when we thought Boris was an improvement on Theresa May?
We never learn do we?
No, I never thought that. Speak for yourself.
Literally 99.8% survival rate ffs!!!!!!!!!!
97% Where do u get these 99.8% figures from this ain’t no soap advert.
@@damreeds2360 Where did you get yours from? LOL
Where on earth do they get these kids from? Not like teens I see all day every day
ikr lmao
Crisis actors for British Brainwash corporate
It will be the same shambles as last year
so i’m in year 11 and i did a set of mocks in late november- early december. will i have to do another set of them like my english teacher said yesterday ??
Potentially but if you're worried of getting your desired grade undercut doing mocks to prove you deserve said grade is the best case scenario for you
Cry more I defunded the BBC
This Government has lost the plot
They know exactly what their doing.They want the ‘great reset’ for the transition to a communistic state.
They can do and say what they want but we the people of Great Britain say NO WE DO NOT CONCENT NO TOO MASKS NO TO VACCINES NO TO VACCINE PASSPORTS AND YES TO VOTING THE SCUM OUT !!!!
I wonder how many parents will try to pay off the teachers...
Hello there
boris is a clown
Not a clown,a puppet.
Clowns are not always criminals.
Just defunded the BBC lol
they'll be finished soon
home school your children & don't pay tax - their games must not continue.
you're acc dumb
@@oscardavies1105 care to elaborate?
don't pay your tax and go to prison. That doesn't seem to be the best way to look after your children.
@@Lunarfacia but treating healthy children like biohazards is definitely the way forward.
Quite handy for underachieving schools with traditionally poor grades, it’s as though the teachers and principals could now rig the results to show that the school is now a higher performer.... but that won’t happen, right? 😉
Not very handy on our country to have undereducated people in roles they aren’t qualified in.
@@dylanmurphy572 Discriminating on Qualification is silly and imprecise. A piece of paper doesn't always determine how qualified someone is for a job
@@saltney17 discrimination on qualification is 100% necessary to ensure you hire the best person for the job. You are chatting bollox
@@dylanmurphy572 You're the most clueless person ever
@@dylanmurphy572 And you're weird
Ghee, the parliament was empty!!!
Interesting fact, at university exams have to written and graded by the lectures, but anonymised and with other safeguards to keep the system fair. Yet the gov has had almost a year to sort this out but is still failing.
are they interviewing real teens or what. fuck me i'm pissed this isn't fair.
No one will be testing my child
Thus devaluing all previous exam results because which teachers are going to mark their pupils down when schools are set against each other?
Actually, my child was an A-grade Chemistry student but his Teacher predicted him a B. A tuff Grammar skool.
@@bostonlincolnshire8745 Actually with schools in competition with each other where is the incentive to undermark the 'final exam'?
My suggestion. Pack Parliament with MP's. Like before the pandemic. Let's see how many turn up. Bojo wants schools reopened. Lead by example. Teacher's look after yourselves. No one else will.
And what about school kitchen staff, dinner ladies and the school caretakers.? Let's not get blinded like we did clapping for the NHS when supermarket workers and bus drivers were in just as much danger as them.
I bet the same teachers have been shopping and masks don't cover eyes. Our eyes are a transmission point for airborne virus. It has been over a year and only just iver 2 percent of cases have died. Mostly elderly, or underlying undiagnosed conditions. No autopsies done so many of the 2 percent may not have died with covid. They are using fear to trap us into a new way of living. The risk for teachers at school would be the same as shopping or any other allowed activity. Schools should not have closed and nowhere should be deemed unsafe. Masks don't work either.
@@positivevibesrfc you certainly sound full of fear.
Why does everyone in this comment section have around 2 gcses and are conspiracy theorists. Its actually embarassing knowing I live on the same planet as ppl who say things like, "wake up ur all sheep"
I agree
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Are you asking a bunch of BBC svckers that? Good luck. Lmfao!
Still nibbling
And here in Turkey people want exams to be cancelled so they don’t get the virus or get terrible grades. I wish that you could swap the two...
ne degisecek ki ? oyle olsada boyle olsada yine ayni
If you gotta take a test every week then school ain’t safe
Kids don’t get covid you pansy
@@illgottengains1314 yeah they do you cretin
pretty sure tests make it safer knobhead
@@magix33 you’ve got a Kermit the frog pfp grow the fuck up
@@ryan6770 unrelated to the discussion you dumbwit, at least if i had myself as my pfp i wouldnt have to cover my ugliness with a mask, coconut haircut looking ass
is this for year 11 and year 10?
I think just for yr11 atm
year 13s too which is the bigger problem
forget about year 10 mate, they have plenty of time lol
What's the outrage here our grades are graded by our teacher here in Asia.
Thing is, there are people like me who aren’t the most intelligent people. We don’t understand and master every single task we are given so we work hard to improve come exam time. I have been accepted to university so I have a “safety net” in case I muck up this year but it sucks for other people who aren’t instantly brilliant at everything like me. Just sharing my perspective.
The intelligent students will be the ones suffering. Grades won’t depend on intelligence, they’ll depend on behaviour and relationship with the teacher
@@dylanmurphy572 cryyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
@@dylanmurphy572 Not necessarily. If somebody is a good student I’m sure it will help, in fact I think it will be the deciding factor. Besides if you had a bad relationship with your teacher then you clearly weren’t a very smart student. It’s always a good idea to remain in good or neutral graces with your teachers. I don’t like one of my teachers as he keeps giving us the wrong page numbers when we are told to use the information on these pages to revise for a test, but I try to remain in his good books. It’s similar to “don’t get on your boss’s nerves at work” But I do see how personal bias could play into it is some cases where the teacher is particularly biased.
The problem I see here is: if a teacher grades a student poorly, the student + parent knows exactly where to go to complain/coerce or worse threaten. My son and wife are teachers. Many children are now far behind in their development, some don't even turn up for on line lessons, how does one grade that?
Bruh exams are still happening for us how is that fair
There are many, many countries where this is the norm. The US, for example. Teachers are professionals, and the vast majority will be completely fair and honest. For the extremely rare few who behave otherwise, I'm sure there will be an appeals policy of some sort. If not, there certainly should be.
This is totally unfair especially for children who come from disadvantaged backgrounds. Not fair to use work during a pandemic as a way to guess grades. Feel bad for teenagers during all this.
Grade inflation, Racial discrimination and classism will definitely be a factor here
Cov testing is not compulsory. I would never employ anyone on their exam results
I’ve come back to this, now doing my A Level resits after being given grades lower than predicted 👍
Don't need exams to get a job as covid police, the only job there is left.
Schools set tests on what syllabus are covered. Yes quality assurance to ensure no grade inflation
3:10 whata unit Bob is
What a joke, more dumbing down of the education system 🙄
Teachers hated me but I got even better grades than I thought tbh.
Curve the grades to curve the complaints. It's a mess.
What percentage of a human being's life should be spent in formal education?
What Boris or the teachers say is irrelevent! It is the employers who decide if the grades are worth anything.
Maybe an evaluation of real learning could, beyond the grades awarded to their students, also legitimately serve the teaching staff for an inventory, a consensual reflection, with a view to reforming or adapting school programs and pedagological methods. With a view to innovative, modern, scalable and adapted pedagogy. For the advancement of education, in progress, too..
Boris - F ...and we need to complain to Ofcom for the BBC saying school testing is compulsory in other posts
Compulsory or not its child abuse. Ask your schools ,doctors etc for risk assessments for masks social distancing lockdowns
Trust me I'm a year 11 student with my final exams in a month. No cut down content or extra support just get it out of the way before lock down 4. I'd much rather just sit the summer exams because it's exactly the same content but I would have an extra 2 months to revise.
Give teachers more power over their classes!!!!!! Don't let the bureaucracy fk things up and moderate grades!!!
How can you defend someone giving out free grades without a test? Make them wait to do the exams, I'm waiting for my life to start again & have been for a year!!! Can I have some free grades?
Should never be up to the teacher. Should be a head of department, and marked by a teacher who doesn’t work with the pupil
Should be up to the student and their ability
@@dylanmurphy572 cry u rat
@@benwatson3457 you’d cry if I got my hands on you 😂
@@dylanmurphy572 little rat
@@dylanmurphy572 such a weird guy
What happens if a teacher does not like the pupil?
Same thing as usual. Teacher puts their feelings aside and judges on merit
Aren't, get your kids out of these indoctrination pens called schools.. Do it.
I have decided to homeschool my son from next year. He will be in year 4.
How exactly are children being indoctrinated? Be specific.
So teacher doesnt like the child they are screwed not fair system ive never trusted all teachers too much power for them you cant trust your childs fate in their hands dont let this happen thats why independent exams are done
Agreed
That's not how it will work. Most teachers have professional integrity and will work extremely hard to give a fair grade. It's not a nice process for the teachers either.
@@Lunarfacia oh ofcourse not every teacher likes every child in their class the same pull the other one ive been through the system and know that teachers all have their pet hate kids
Mouthwash sales are going to be through the roof with teenagers now.... 👀
@Legalize Cannabis in the UK. Give it some time, you'll catch it
@Legalize Cannabis in the UK. 'window licking' lol
Change the law for 4 years
I could have done with grade inflation when I was at school 🤣
Inflation is the opposite of good, it means the grades are worth less. So employers looking at a predicted 2020/2021 A Level might discard it for even a worse 2018/2019 A Level Basically getting a job is harder
Well done Boris once again youve handled this like rest of the pandemic teachers know there kids work better than anyone so best option chosen again
Except bright pupils wud rather sit their exams!
@@bostonlincolnshire8745 Exams are meaningless and imprecise at the end of the day
Not like exams are a relevant measure anyway
@@mattwilson3310 Tell that the a medical student.
@@bostonlincolnshire8745 clueless sheep
Why the fuck did they not do this last year i got downgraded from 8’s -6’s
Rip anyone under toxic teachers
That apple made of gold will come in handy...
I know for sure that if some of my teachers were given the chance to award my exam results I'd have been well and truly screwed. Other teachers would just have given the same grade for everyone, like the gym teacher who graded swimming even though we'd never been near the pool all term. Will be no surprise when universities introduce broader requirement for entrance exams to courses, even jokey degree's like social and media studies.
They do have to provide actual evidence. They can't simply assign the grade
@@lolacaputo8774 If a teacher decides to dislike a pupil then any evidence from coursework will also be skewed against them.
So it's going to be a popularity contest now.
What part of Pakistan is this?
let me guess some agree with it some dont its called no win situation
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It’s life that we have to do exams, of course they say they find it better it’s in class and that they get predicted grades, but no one will know there full potential when in that exam on there own to see what they learnt ? Exams are always stressful but it has to be done so you can then give full potential of the high grade they’ve been given
I genuinely don't think they had a choice in this case. Exams may have been fairer for you, but I didn't get any teaching for two months in the first lockdown. Not to mention the fact that some children haven't even had laptops from which to work. I completely agree that exams would have hypothetically been a better alternative, but I truly don't see how it could have been possible in this situation
They constantly make GCSE's easier to compensate for people getting dumber, may as well just give the grades away too.
It's actually the COMPLETE opposite.
This isn't fair in any sort of way and will pose a problem. We are potentially ruining countless young people's lives here. The BBC hasn't been neutral on this in my opinion. They don't counter much or actually talk to poeple that oppose.
I went through this last year. Everyone here is forgetting to mention one thing. Grades during the year do not matter towards any real grade which means that students like me don't care enough to work for them. For example in my GCSE my predicted grades by teachers were 4s and 5s for double science and maths. Then I went on to get a double 8 in double science and 8 in Maths. In year 12, I was getting anything from Cs and some Ds during the year and then I got As and Bs and even an A* in the exams that decided my UCAS predicted. Lucky for me my teachers did understand me a bit and gave me grades a bit higher than the ones I had gotten during the year. Still I can't help but think that I would have gotten a B easily instead of a C in physics which would have definitely made it possible for me to go to the University I wanted. Unfortunately I couldn't.
Studies have shown that teachers will give a lower grade to a child from a poor background, even when the standard of the work is the same as a child from a more affluent background. Boys are also routinely marked lower than girls. The whole profession needs cleaned from top to bottom.
Link the studies please, I’m interested
I'd love to see these studies. I've looked for them but can't find them. Do you have a link?
"kids don't should Weare face masks because they need to see face expression" ???? "kids shouldn't Weare face masks because they often forget to put them on" ??? - - - what a shit of lies right in our face is that ??? are they think we are really this stupid? or are we ???
Get good grades in every test,we don’t need a final exam.Kids need to work hardest,study years is for study only.Some schools have assessment every week,need to study all the time @ WHINES @
Cramming is the name of the game
@@BobMarley-vl5gl There is theory and then there is practical’s.IGCSE is all about detailing of the vast ,extensive,volumiNOus curriculum,it’s multi disciplinary,application oriented ,and is very rigorous.Need more focus and the syllabus is very demanding.
@@BobMarley-vl5gl I think you’re from A’s college,who ain’t a job,are you peeking and snooping through my phone,see my food posts ,kids pictures and my other gadgets ,we use to study and communicate with our friends and family.Are you even going to my friends and family posts to check on things? You’re paranoid and have you investigated your friends parents,father,mother,relatives etc
"There'll be a very clear and robust appeals mechanism" - Gavin Williamson MP Education Secretary. There had damned well better be because: - Experiments confirm that women’s automatic in-group bias is remarkably stronger than men’s... (Source: Rutgers University) - 75.8% of teachers are women (Source: gov.uk) I and others will be scrutinising the exam grade statistics very carefully to ensure that British boys do not lose out even more. They have already been discriminated against for nearly four decades now (Source: empathygap.uk/?p=121)
decide? bbc didn't give the answers before test?
For these people who says that people are going to get easy 9s, noooo. Tfff is wrong with u. To get a 9 from the teacher, ud need straight 9s in that subject for thr last couple of months. If someone got that many continous 9s in a lot of exams, then he deserves it.
I see the BBC are even doctoring the likes and dislikes now.
They have been doing it for at least the past year) probably more.
Suze Siviter they need to be defunded.
@@kevinthornley7659 Been saying that for years since they covered up the cigar muncher, but this year they have really shown who their sponsors are, you try and find one scientist or Dr on TV that has not had funding from Gill Bates.
@@kevinthornley7659 I think they would be getting off lightly after the damage they have caused.
Wait wtf is this? I'm probably gonna fuckin fail now like what?
REMINDER FOR EMPLOYERS - DON'T HIRE THOSE THAT HAD THEIR GRADES IN 2020 AND 2021.
Right so what do you expect students this year and last year to do? Why are you acting like students should be punished for life because of something that they have had absolutely zero control over and have had zero input into?
Ok so I did my GCSES in 2020 so this means im never getting a job ?
this is just crazy
Lots of people here who blame teachers for everything. I remember those types from school, they did no work, behaved badly, disrupted things for everybody else and then claimed they were being “ picked on”.
But it largely is teachers to blame. They've just had a year off. Time to give up the jolly and get back to work!
@@wangdangdoodie Teachers are to blame for Covid, or the school shutdown, or the cancellation of exams? Or everything? I can see which type of “ student” you are or were.
So he should - life has been hard for these kids
*input curb your enthusiasm theme song*
Do not sign consent form, Do not let your child to be masked,Neither have convid test.
no, just your children
Years 10s😢
were next, and it as sinister as it sounds as this bias is just gonna destroy our lifes
The news as the bbc correspondents see it!
I say this all the time, just because you have a BMW doesn’t mean your lungs are protected from lung cancer !! Humble yourself and stop thinking your big, just because someone smokes marijuana doesn’t make them an idiot to society Yeah sure he smokes marijuana but you Smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol so who will look stupid when they end up in hospital? Tired of the BS that people come up with
Well that's all A's then, teachers aint gonna give proper grades it will make them look bad🙄
That’s not the case. I know my teachers and all of them at my school have the integrity to be honest. It doesn’t impact their careers.
And don’t forget the teachers won’t want to be labelled racist
What a ridiculous thing to say!
Quality of education compromise here
May the love of God that surpasses all understanding.guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. 🙏
Teachers are human. Want their pupils to do well. No way they won't 'mark up'. Creating a skewed, fantasy performance table.
Oh really, you know your teacher well lol. As long as you're in favour with the teacher will depend on your grade... Disastrous! Doris Johnson, hilarious!
You will see 👀 a lot of drop outs outs. that's why this is happening.