GCSE and A level exams in 2022 will not be back to normal

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We knew it. But now Ofqual have confirmed it.

GCSE and A level exams in 2022 will not be back to normal. This will have a huge impact on the private candidates for yet another year.

Simon Lebus, the chief regulator of Ofqual, said it was ‘not yet decided’ whether ‘full fat exams’ would be sat in 2022.

A-level and GCSE exams are unlikely to come back in their normal form in England next year, the head of Ofqual has said.

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At the very least Simon said, changes are likely to be needed “to take account of learning loss and disruption” and they could still be cancelled again.

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Mr Lebus said in an interview it was “still under discussion exactly what is going to happen next year”.

“Next year’s cohort would have suffered quite a lot of disruption and indeed the A-level students would never have sat public exams before,” he said.

“It’s not yet decided whether we will be back to full fat exams as it were.”

Ofqual is “looking at a variety of different options” about what ought to happen. “Obviously a lot of it is going to be dependent on the policy determination within the Department of Education and the Secretary of State’s views.”

While there was an “appetite to return to exams”, there was “recognition that the nature of that return has got to be considered in the context of the learning loss and learning disruption that the cohort sitting those exams will have had”.

How this summer’s results play out influence what happens in 2022, Mr Lebus said. “Another big factor actually that’s going to be interesting is going to be what the outcomes are this year, and that certainly may impact any plan Bs or plan Cs if there’s another public health crisis and we have to revert to using teacher assessment.”

He admitted that centre and teacher assessed grades this year was likely to result in more inconsistency in the results awarded across different schools. Simon said: “Clearly it’s not going to be as consistent as it would be if we were using externally set exams in the normal way because it’s not that sort of exercise,”