As part of a consultation on our rules for awarding GCSEs,
AS and A levels in 2021, we published (on Thursday, 25
February) draft guidance for
heads of centre, heads of department and teachers on
how to generate the evidence that will be used to determine
their students’ grades this summer.
The grades submitted to exam boards must reflect a fair,
reasonable and carefully considered judgement of the
student’s performance across a range of evidence, on the
curriculum content that they have been taught. Heads of
centre should emphasise the need for judgements to be
objective and fair. To promote this, exam boards will set
out detailed quality assurance requirements.
We’d like views on this draft guidance from heads of
centre, heads of department and teachers. You have until
23:45 on 11 March to respond to the
consultation.
This is part of a technical consultation and necessary for
us to set the rules so exams boards deliver and award
qualifications in accordance with the latest policy
decisions.
We are also seeking views on the proposed rules, and the
proposed ‘information for
centres about making objective judgements’. We are not
seeking views on the underlying policy decisions, which we
announced following our joint consultation with the
Department for Education and explained in our analysis and
decisions documents.
