Sentences with phrase «move grade boundary»
The watchdog won a legal challenge from schools, heads and pupils over the grading of last year's English GCSE results, after exam boards were told to move grade boundaries.
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The move comes at the end of a summer dominated in the education world by a row over GCSE grade boundary changes in English.
Pupils from England, Wales and Northern Ireland were offered the chance to resit the papers free of charge after the row over the moving of grade boundaries.
Owen Hathway, policy officer with the National Union of Teachers (NUT) Cymru, said it was «simply unacceptable to move the goalposts for boundary grades half way through the process, especially having not given any prior warning to teachers and pupils».
It also suggested the grade boundaries had had to be moved in response to teachers «significantly» overmarking controlled assessment papers.
The move away from the C / D boundary meant the «grade of every pupil counts, which has brought more rigour to tracking and analysing data».
If a question is so hard no one can answer it, or an error makes a question impossible, then grade boundaries will be moved to account for that.
«Having seen grade boundaries moved between January and June, and papers regraded in Wales but not England or Northern Ireland, it is our feeling that the drop in the number of students getting five A * to C including English and mathematics is related to this.
Last week Ofqual said it felt the way this year's English GCSE exams were graded was fair, despite the grade boundaries being moved significantly part - way through the year.
My second son is in 4th grade and I'm already starting the grieving process that we will «only» be alums and not part of it's every day... We've had multiple opportunities to move to other schools (because of Spectrum placement and a new STEM school and boundary changes) but we all decided to stay with Alki.