Summer 2022 Examinations - advance information is coming out today

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This is a challenging time for all teachers and students preparing for another disrupted exam season, but one where at least there is likely to be some examinations taken in person rather than the Centre and Teacher Assessed Grades (and the dreaded 'algorithm') being used to provide the all important grades that can influence the course of a person's life. 

As a former examinations officer, I know that this is a very stressful time for those who are charged with ensuring that the whole process runs smoothly.

I've been keeping an eye out for the release of this information and some of the awarding bodies seem to be a little more ahead of the curve on this. There are some changes to be made to content, and the BBC News was suggesting other changes. The wording will of course upset some because of how it was phrased... and is not helpful when changes in grades have many other knock-on effects on pass rates.

There was also some coverage in some newspapers of alleged 'gaming' of the examination system in previous years, particularly focussing on independent schools. I would guess that all teachers would explore the guidance and process and make sure their students were not unfairly affected by it but also stay within those guidelines as educational professionals, very often with many years of experience of the process, even being examiners themselves.

It's also concerning for teachers if not all specifications are doing the same things, and they don't feel that they are being treated the same with regards to the amount being 'removed' or the particular way that is being organised. The fact that the changes have taken so long to communicate is also perhaps not helpful, although OFQUAL are presumably involved in all decisions and negotiations.

OCR were first up this morning, and their materials are now on the website.

There were some tweets mentioning AQA too. 

Will add any others as they come out. If you see one I'm missing, drop me an email or add a comment below.

Also let me know of any other aspects of this that are worthy of sharing here in case it helps a colleague.

UPDATE - 7th Feb.- 9pm

DfE Guidance is here.

Thanks to Andy Funnell for this thread and others too:

Update 10pm - Rachael Robinson 


Update 8th February 10am

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