Results dates for this summer’s GCSE and A-level exams have been announced.
It is the first time in three years that exams have been sat for three years.
Results in 2020 and 2021 were awarded on teacher assessments after exams were cancelled thanks to coronavirus and pandemic school closures.
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The Welsh Government and exam regulator Qualifications Wales have said the intention is to run exams this year.
Content has been cut to reflect lost learning with continued classroom closures, but exam it will be harder to get top grades after what has been seen, by some, as two years of inflated teacher assessed grades.
If, as seems, the pandemic continues to ease, exams will go ahead and results days will return to later in August.
A-level results will be published on August 18 and GCSEs on August 25.
Grade boundaries for A levels, AS and GCSEs and the Skills Challenge Certificate will be set to halfway between pre-pandemic 2019 and 2021’s r ecord results after exams were cancelled and replaced with teacher assessments.
Some headteachers, parents and students have called for exams to be cancelled again saying they can’t be fair with so much variation in how much face to face learning has been lost.
They say the same conditions exist as last year when exams were cancelled.
Thousands of pupils have been sent home to learn online for Covid related reasons since September. Some A level students claim they have lost weeks of learning this academic year.
Education Minister Jeremy Miles told WalesOnline he would be discussing arrangements for appeals with Qualifications Wales and exam board the WJEC this week.
Teaching unions and headteachers have called for a transparent appeals process.
If, as seems, the pandemic continues to ease, exams will go ahead and results days will return to later in August.
A-level results will be published on August 18 and GCSEs on August 25.
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