'I think this year’s A-level, and indeed GCSE, students have indeed been desperately unlucky' cahalmilmo takes a look inside the A-level 'shitshow' as students face triple hit of pandemic, strikes and harsher marking
It is all headed for “an attainment shitshow” for 2023’s university intake, according to the blunt assessment of one senior sixth form teacher, who was referring to the fact that some 50,000 of this year’s students will miss out on the top A* and A grades that they would otherwise have been awarded had they sat their exams last year.
There is likely to be a surge in students, and miffed parents, appealing grades. And with university entry requirements more likely to be missed, demand for clearing will surge. Adding further pressure is the fact that 2023 has an unusually high number of 18 year olds all vying forJasminder feels she and her peers have been cut no slack.: “The teachers tried their best but I do feel like no-one has given us a break. The pandemic came and it was like ‘you’ll have to work hard to catch up’.
Jasminder, who qualified for free school meals throughout her school years and is hoping for two As and a B to confirm her place to read economics at a leading Russell Group university, looked back on her final years at a state secondary in the deprived east London borough of Newham with something akin to a shudder.
When she sat her A-level papers in maths, biology and economics ten or so weeks ago, they were the first public exams that she and most Year 13s across the country had ever taken after not having to formally sit theirduring the Covid-19 outbreak.
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