Damian Ainscough has written a blog post about the new GCSE grading system.
Ofqual have released digital postcards explaining it as well:
And in response to Damian’s question on twitter I had an attempt as well. Firstly I produced this tweet:
It’s difficult to produce an accurate representation in a tweet, but I gave it a go.
But then I did this
The middle section of this image needs some explanation, meaning that this example is probably too complicated – Damian certainly thought so when I showed him; however I reckon it is worth thinking about.
Ofqual state that broadly the same proportion of students will achieve a grade 4 and above as currently achieve a grade C and above. And the same statement is also used for 7+ and grade A (with the top 20% of those students awarded a grade 9). So I used the 2014 data for Maths and English…
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