GCSE and A-level students told grades will be protected from Covid disruption, as exams begin
Most teenagers taking GCSEs and A-levels will have been in Year 8 and Year 10 respectively at the start of the pandemic, in 2020., although many schools have tried to prioritise exam year groups on days where strike action has occurred.
Rocsi has been able to go into school during recent teacher strikes. She supports the teachers, but says it has made it more difficult to revise.More than 200 miles away, in Preston, Olivia, 16, feels "pretty confident" about most of her exams - although she also struggles with the practical experiments she missed out on in Year 9.
"That's not really what they should be testing you on - your memory," she said. "It's if you can actually apply [the formulae] to what you're working out." She said a return to "pre-pandemic arrangements" would give clarity to universities and employers, but Ofqual recognised that this year's candidates, too, had experienced disruption.
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