Using year 6 grades is senseless and ridiculous. I mean come on,you can never really predict how much someone has improved by looking at what they have done 5 years ago and using the old results to alter the actual sensible predictions made by teachers its mind-blowing.
The Year 6 students of this generation that don’t get to take their SATs have to use their Year 2 SATs unless if something is put in place for them. Let that sink in.
Your school by now should of changed your predicted grades in yr10 or early yr11 depending on your mock grades as my school thought it wouldn't be fair to have predicted grades based on yr6 sats
People don’t understand... up until year 9 I just didn’t care about school or work at year 9 I made a decision to actually try and do well in grades every time I see my predicted grades it makes me feel like I can’t do well because they’re so low. It’s so dumb using year 6 grades as actual grades people can change
@@georgec8077 Impossible! Do you know how ridiculous it is to completely ruin our 'last' relaxing summer hollidays of 12 weeks we was supposed to get after our GCSE to just be spent revising for exams that would have a much much higher grade boundary since everyone retaking would be people who know they could get a 'high' grade/mark.
This isn’t the best situation tho. Some went from DDD to AAA in the exams. I remember for GCSES not studying for mocks because they papers they were doing for mocks didn’t align with my timeline that I was studying.
I couldn't even underterdstand English evenless my writing skills were horrible in Yr 6. Obviously my predicted grades are going to be low 😭😭😭 Ps I'm from Spain - only knew how to speak in Spanish and catalan
I just wanted to say thank you Mr Salles, I watched all of your Inspector Calls, L&R poetry and Christmas Carol videos and I got a 9 in my lit mock, two grades up from the previous mock. I hope I get 9 in the final grades and if I do it'll be thanks a lot to you!!
Surely if you’ve done brill consistently these last 5 years at high school (7,8,9), but according to your Sats results you’re predicted a 4, they’d p much discard the whole sats thing. Surely that makes much more sense
Thingy 101 I think depending on how well your teacher is aware of the step up they will adjust it, because I have the opposite issue where all my target grades are really high and am mostly not hitting them so I feel as though they won’t take them into account that much
yess I’m so worried about this because my targets are like 4 and 5 and in my mock exams and end of topic exams I get 7,8,9s and the only reason my target is so low is because of my sats so idk if they would put my grades down
I feel bad for the year 11s because I got a 4 in my comprehension and reading (SATS) and 8s in both English GCSEs. So I hope you guys get what you deserve. I was predicted b’s in my GCSEs and in the end I got 6 A* and 3As.
I just got an acceptance conditional offer from my dream sixth form- a very competitive school. And then I remembered that my teachers are choosing my grades. I’m done out here😫
L DN it’s going to work the same as it does every year, if your calculated grades meet the requirements for your course then you’ll get it, if they don’t then you can go through clearing or appeal the grade. However universities this year will also be using references and personal statements more so than they usually would when accepting students.
If you’re always on the verge of the next grade do u think they’ll round it up 😂 like if ur 2 marks off a 7 or a 6 can the teachers boost it according to attitude in class
Depends on ur teacher tbh, also they’re doing this ranking thing so for example the ppl who r achieving near a grade above will be moved up and the ppl who r achieving near a grade below will be moved down
Hi. I'm really worried, based on SATS in Y6, I'm predicted 4's. But over the last 4 years, I've worked my arse off (and my teachers know), consequently, I got all 7's, 8's and one 9 in my mocks! Will it mainly be based on mocks (like I want it to be!), or will they use SATS? Thanks :)
ッ I feel like they’ll be based more on mocks- my SATS results actually got lost! I was predicted exactly what I got in the exams too so if that’s reassuring to you
As a teacher, I will not be responding to a student who asks me 'do you think I am at risk?'. Answering that question sets an expectation. The best policy is to not say anything. I know it is a confusing and unsettling time for students. By all means ask questions about the process but recognise that you cannot do anything now to influence your grade. All the best.
I understand your reticence. It isn't about influencing the grade, it is about knowing whether to spend time revising for the exam when it comes, or whether to concentrate on preparing for next steps. We could definitely tell a student that we think they are at risk of not getting the grade they need.
Thanks for the video. I am a maths teacher working with a girl who is opting out of school. Have suggested she aims for an autumn exam, she is getting in the high 30's, which I think is not enough. Am going to forward your video to her mother
My business teacher predicted me a 6 even though I got an 8 in the mock and mostly 8's and 9's in other exams, we've only had her for a year as our other teacher left
Mr Salles: I am in year 12 and things are really difficult right now as I am completing A Level coursework at home and having to finish year 12 content independently. Do you think that 2021 A Level exams and grade boundaries will be adjusted accordingly?
jaffa they won’t adjust the grade boundaries themselves as grades are based off of how well people do as a cohort. E.g. the exam board won’t decide that you need a certain percentage for an A*, they will just take the top 5% of marks and those that are in that top bracket are awarded an A*- that’s how it’s always been and that’s how it was with GCSEs. This means that one year, you may only need 60% to get an A* and the next year you may need a higher percentage- it’s entirely dependant on the standards of those you are competing with. So if the whole country suffers from not being able to complete their final term (which I imagine they will), the grade boundaries will naturally be reduced
@@oliviawildblood1639 like for my a level geo exam some of the actual exam is based on data we were supposed collect on a trip in June. Since that's not gonna happen I dont think putting that in the exam would have any purpose since we wouldn't have the data to answer the questions on it ????
I have been working at grades 7-9 throughout my secondary school experience, never dropping below a 7 in my mocks but there were MASSIVE issues with how my SATs were administrated, my school thinks that the wrong data was obtained. What happens now? Surely if my grades are much higher than target grades they have to accept that? All of my GCSE targets are 3’s and 4’s but I gained 4 grade 9’s in my mocks :/.
Say If students were not bothered to revise for mocks and get low grade however they know aswell as teacher that, that student could have easily got a few grades higher? what will happen then?
Ali Qamar The government said students will be able to sit GCSE exams ‘as soon as is reasonably possible’ after schools open, if you’re unhappy with some of your predicted grades.
If the teacher knows that student could have done better then there must be evidence to justify that thought in the first place. Hopefully that evidence is taken into account and boosts that student's grade, even if it's only by a single grade. Although, you could always re-sit later on.
@@bethking4354 I read that the teachers can give a predicted grade to a student without giving much physical evidence, so long as multiple teachers can reinforce their claim. For example if a student is performing at a grade 8 in English and the teacher knows this, however there is a lack of physical evidence due to a student missing their mocks or PPEs, the student can be given a grade 8 so long as multiple teachers can agree on that deserving grade. This means that a student can be given a good English grade for being generally formal and literate in speach, despite there being no papers to prove that. Don't quote me on that because this is new news and therefore could be false, however the fact that there is too much evidence (per student) to analyze (Mocks, PPEs, classwork, homework, extra assignments etc...) suggests that this is likely true as the exam board require no proof, only a grade for each student.
Hi Mr salles - I just wanted to say that your videos have helped me so so much and thanks to you I achieved near full marks in both papers 1 and 2 of my lit mock. Although I am still upset by the cancellations as I wanted to prove myself and the work I had been doing, I am so grateful to you for helping me to do well in the mock. I suppose I’ll just have to wait for a-level...
Aren’t our UCAS predicted grades for A level holistically predicted by our teachers anyway? At least, for my school they were set based on our year 12 mocks and what the teacher realistically thought we would achieve during the exam. I just hope I get the same as my UCAS predicted.
And as preachy as it sounds, it's good to still keep your mind active. I'm going off to Uni this year (hopefully without any hiccups) and if I stopped working I don't feel I'd be prepared for that kind of transition. Even if it's just wider reading, it's still good to keep your mind on your subject(s).
papi chulo ok papi 😂😂 I am scared when it comes to grades I need AAA and my offer would never go down cos it’s medicine and it’s competitive. So i proably start revising in May in case , cos I don’t trust these teachers
Subhan Ahmed I want to do med too but I think they’re going to be more flexible accepting people into their schools because they understand that students are at a disadvantage
i hate this situation so much. i didn’t try hard enough in my mocks and class tests because i wanted to ‘put my all’ into my real gcse exams. brb i’m gonna cry
Hey, my school is a small school filled with a lot of slackers. Trust me, last year, I was one of the very few students who managed a B and an A in AS IAL. Lot's of student did really really bad. Now, does that mean regardless of my hardwork, I won't get my desired grades because other students did bad in year 11?
Jack Shack I find myself in a similar position. I consistently get 8s and 9s in my subjects but the previous years of my schools pass rates have been way below average. My year has the best grades that school has ever had, but I’m hoping that I don’t get moved down because of this :((
Sorry, but Ofqual and the gov have never said anything about SATs and Year 6 . They said prior attainment not checking what you did HALF A DECADE AGO! They do not use year 6 for your grades they do it based on the cohort and the percentiles.
Our official computing teacher left last year and we've had a cover for the entirety of year eleven, so my grades have gone from 8/9's in computing to 6's. In my last assessment I got a 6 in paper 1... does this mean I'll get a 6 in my GCSE's? I'll be so upset.
I wasn’t even in this country in Yr6 ,and even if they get them in my country grade 6 is the highest and is like grade 9 ,I feel like they will misunderstand the 6 as a “B”
I'm getting mad the the people who are saying that it's unfair to use their mocks because they didn't revise for them and it isn't a true reflection of their skills. Newsflah: that's on you. Coronavirus or not you should've revised for your mocks, because in the very rare occasion that you are in hospital ect... and can't take your GCSE's, they usually use your mock grades. It's yall's faults for not revising for your mocks, and no one else's. Like if there was a genuine reason why you couldn't revise properly ect... for your mocks, then that's fine. But if you have low grades just because you were lazy then that is your fault.
Hi I am not a student, I am a Science Graduate. I had a query, why should a student's performance in year 6 decide, how they would do in year 11. That's like half a decade, a child's brain is still developing and they could have done a lot better. To put emphasise on a 5 year gap, people can age and look totally different in that time. What would be the point of them doing assessments, and attending classes (for 5 years), when they are just going to get as what they would have had at age 11 My story: I was bullied by other students, in my primary school, and did not get support from my school. Had a 3,3,3 in my SATS. Learnt to read and write at 12, although my grades picked up, instead of my school updating this, they default put my actual grade as a predicted grading the following year. E.G: I got in top set maths and had the highest in my year A*, but my report card said I got an E. I got fed up and my MUM sent me to a private school. My GCSE's were a string of A's. I personally think that teachers perceptions on judging students based on grades years before should change, anything could change in 5 years. You do have great advice, I wanted you to know my story as peoples perceptions and outlook on things could change, in the state school I went to I became a laughing stock by the teachers who looked at me as a "waste of space" when wanting to get into the higher paper. In private school, I got the highest in my school, which had exams that were harder.
Well done on your achievements. The teacher's grade will be the most important fact, but it will be compared to how students in the school did in year 6 and how, over the last two years, students in year 11 made progress. So, a student given a grade 7 by a teacher will probably still get grade 7, but they may also be moved to a 6 or an 8 after those other factors are taken into account.
Mr Salles let's say that someone's grades based on SATS are 5s however they've achieved 7s and 8s in their mocks will the SATS grades make a difference or just be disregarded
hi! i never did sats in primary school so i was wondering what would happen for students who are like me in this position? all my target grades are 7s for every subject (just a neutral grade they chose) and i usually get 7s/8s/9s. would not having done sats affect the grade i am predicted?
this is all ridiculous bc they’re PREDICTING what im gonna do on the exam IF i would have taken it. what if ppl didint do well on mocks bcus they didint have time to revise yet, how can u KNOW how ppl will do on an exam they’ve never took. im so annoyed rn
Hi, just wondering, i done quite bad in my mocks but i have revised and re learned a lot of the stuff since then, what are the chances of that being recognised and not getting similar to the mocks
Also I have another question. Do they really expect people to apply for cambridge by october 15th now that all the oxbridge help events have been cancelled?
Hi and thank you. That confirmed my understanding of the situation. One of ny students is completely homeschooled and I'm solely responsible for his grade. I've been seeing him for less than a year as he was excluded last February but he only got funding for tuition last June.. He was due to sit the exams as a private student in a college but that was literally just using the college as an exam centre for the purpose of complying with exam regs. In other words, they've had nothing to do with teaching him. He did mocks in December (which I marked). Since the cancellation we are working in coursework/extended essays, which I will submit to the college after I mark them, along with my predicted grades and the mocks. Otherwise I'll have very little evidence in which to base my predictions. My question is... he has made extraordinary progress since his exclusion which was for his own protection. He has gone up from grade 3/4 in June 2019 to 7/8 now If I can't submit the coursework, how can I prove it? Thank you
Hi Im a private candidate (Eng Lit) and just had a call from the exam centre. They told me I won't be sitting the exam this year, not even in November, and my grade will be awarded as predicted grade from my tutor. They also gave me the option to sit the exam next year at much cheaper rate. Those who are 16 or doing Maths and Eng Lang are likely to be given the option of predicted grade or to sit in November. I don't know if this implies to all the private candidates but I thought to share.
When you discuss SATs, do you mean that these will be taken into account by teachers/exam boards when calculating our grade? Or do you mean that the exam boards/teachers will loom at how the whole country overall has performed (so overperformed or underperformed) in comparison to their Y6 results to see if it matches with past years ? As my SATs are not great but have worked at grades 7 and above for GCSE so if it is the former it will lower what I should have got. Hope that makes sense.
Jack R I think it’s the year 6 SATs because they provide your target grades throughout secondary school and sixth form / college. I think it’s a guideline. Hope that helps or even makes sense
Jack R I believe it will be individual. If you did well in them it can boost your grade if you didn’t they will probably discount it and use note recent data but it should be your individual grades not the classes
Do you think this year’s year 11 will eventually have higher grade boundaries for A Level because we’ve had such an unprecedented long time to prepare?
Hi, I think I’ve performed rlly badly in my mocks and it’s not a gd reflection of what I could actually do.... will this significantly lower my gcse grades?
I got predicted a 6 in gcse maths and science but both subjects teachers knew that I was gonna get a grade 9 which I did later on. School usually predict people lower than what they actually get so predicted grade is very unfair. Also mocks are called mocks because they are mocks and people don’t try so that’s also very unfair
I was predicted from my year 6 grades to get passing GCSE grades and 4s and 5s at best .In year 11 I have mostly gotten 7-9s (except french with still a high pass) on my mocks .Now I don’t want this to effect my actual grades being dragged down because of my year 6 grades .Tho statistics are wonderful things they are quiet ridiculous for some people who can make a lot of progress .Plus they’re counting a grade from 5 years ago as .
Your Kindred spirit nah bro it’s based off mocks , work finished and the teachers overall assessment of you as a student. Was emailed to me by my school
bruh same like I know sooo many people who did really bad in their mocks and now we all are just hoping for the teachers to be nice now, honestly this isn't fair cause like I didn't even try that much for my mocks :(
I missed my SATs because I was sick my school said it wasn’t that important but if I knew it would be something that would be highlighted throughout my secondary years, I would resit it. But because I’ve missed it I’ve been predicted 6s and 7s even though majority of subjects I’m doing is foundation and my mock results was 3s and 4s so basically I’m so depressed because I’m a failure not doing GCSEs and doing GCSEs not making a difference.
Sooo basically I’m going to fail my GCSEs without even doing them. It’s not fair. I’ve been working so hard since I’ve done so bad in my mocks and class assessments. My revision technique was so bad I didn’t know how to revise I tried very hard. Now as I’m starting to improve they CANCEL them exams. And now they are going to be using the grades we have achieved in the past. This is not going to be fair for so many students. I won’t get into the sixth form I’ve applied to and I won’t be able to retake because my sixth form won’t do that for new students. I’m devastated and I’m extremely stressed. Everything is just ruined for me and a lot of other students too.
Once the holidays are over, you should phone them. 6th forms need cash, so I imagine they would ask you to take the exams as soon as they are available. You should keep revising the subjects you are passionate about or need if you know your mocks are just not good enough.
Mr Salles Teaches English thanks for the reply :). the thing is I’ve received a conditional offer there and I won’t be able to meet the grade requirements with this new grading system 😓. And due to the fact that it is an independent grammar school, I have a feeling that they won’t be as considerate if I miss the requirements or want to take the exams in autumn. Please may I have some advice 😢.
Mr Salles Teaches English and yes my mocks are not good enough, but will that be the only thing used to calculate my grade? Because I know my teachers can’t look at our books because they hardly mark them and we have them.
we've all been fucked. i remember telling my self AS grades won't matter nothing matters except the final exam I do. Well the Government has ruined my grades. Time to learn from home and start a business. Oh boy here we go!
Hi mr Salles, I’m in year 10 and I was wondering what would happen. About the grade boundaries, as if we go back in September that’s 6 months of education lost and therefore will have a lasting impact on our GCSEs.
I was wondering if this is going to be the same at private schools? Just because so far we are being told to carry on with work and we will continue with this work after the Easter holidays online. I’m not sure if it’s because they are being cautious or making sure my parents have a reason to still pay the fees. But I just have no motivation at the moment to do the work they’re setting. It’s like there’s no goal anymore. I passed all my mocks and never did SATs, instead entrance exams which they never told us the results for. I’m just worried I’m making a mistake by not doing any work. The only work I’m properly continuing with is art and photography, which almost seems like a joke now.
Mock judgement is not fair. Many students do not try because they have been told that they don’t matter. Many teachers I had told me that they won’t affect my end grade. Look where we are now
As a teacher myself the message I always give pupils is take mocks seriously ! Some sixth forms look at mock results , and this case your GCSE grades depends on it.
Im worried af. he said if u didnt do any mocks then ill have to do the exams whenever they are available. however ive already retaken one year and if i do exams in autumn, ill miss another year........... is it 100% that i will have to do exams in autumn and they cant use my school's predicted grades + the teacher input of my ability?
what about if a student didn't went to year 6 and straight away he started going to year 7 as he new langguge. for explain me,English is my first language but now i can write and read other people and i am in set 3 which is will good for me .
What if my Predicted grade is decent but my sat results weren't so good? For example, what if my rp in english is a 6 but my target grade from sats is a 4.
In our school, we didn't do mocks for all of our subjects and for some reason I failed my maths mocks and my teacher said thats very unlikely of me as I usually pass every time so I don't know what the outcome will be, I really hope I pass. I usually get 4's and 5's but in the maths mocks I got a 3 overall :(
Let’s say I got a 3 in the latest mock exam for English Language but in previous English Language mock exams I got far higher such as 5/6, would that be taken into consideration?
jUBjUBjELLY 4 that’s literally not even fair though. My sister failed all her mock which gave her a reality check. She revised a lot which led her to getting straight 8s and 9s
Is it just me or nothing feels real yet??
nope:(
I’m in total agreement x
It didn’t feel real for the past week or two weeks but recently I’ve gotten used to it after going out for exercise a few times
Same x
Tamanna Begum yep
Using year 6 grades is senseless and ridiculous. I mean come on,you can never really predict how much someone has improved by looking at what they have done 5 years ago and using the old results to alter the actual sensible predictions made by teachers its mind-blowing.
Yeah that's ridiculous?! Using year 6? When people were 10-11 years old? They progress people make will be completely different to that?!
When our brains weren’t even completely developed
The Year 6 students of this generation that don’t get to take their SATs have to use their Year 2 SATs unless if something is put in place for them. Let that sink in.
Your school by now should of changed your predicted grades in yr10 or early yr11 depending on your mock grades as my school thought it wouldn't be fair to have predicted grades based on yr6 sats
People don’t understand... up until year 9 I just didn’t care about school or work at year 9 I made a decision to actually try and do well in grades every time I see my predicted grades it makes me feel like I can’t do well because they’re so low. It’s so dumb using year 6 grades as actual grades people can change
My dream was to work soo hard to get all nines but now that’s impossible :(
SuperSam you can still do that later on this year. now you have 6 months to revise for it. I'm sure you'll be fine whatever you want to do!
George C if we retake everything how will we get into colleges/ 6 forms ?
George C the only one I’m confused for is how Spanish will work
@@georgec8077 Impossible! Do you know how ridiculous it is to completely ruin our 'last' relaxing summer hollidays of 12 weeks we was supposed to get after our GCSE to just be spent revising for exams that would have a much much higher grade boundary since everyone retaking would be people who know they could get a 'high' grade/mark.
exactly
This isn’t the best situation tho. Some went from DDD to AAA in the exams. I remember for GCSES not studying for mocks because they papers they were doing for mocks didn’t align with my timeline that I was studying.
Facts! In yr 10 to 11 I went from d to A in maths
I know someone who went from U to A in maths s level
Are you an a level student? Also, what do you mean by timeline?
@[UFOP] AnkGrooger
lol
Dean Billy yes i know someone who got CCEin a level mocks, came out with A*A*B
I prayed to God to help me in the exams.
He took the exam itself. I'm so happy 🤣😂
I can’t believe and watched a video without skipping any part of it
I am also impressed!
Ffs I was so dumb in Year 6 that is not fair.
Holly B sameeeee
I couldn't even underterdstand English evenless my writing skills were horrible in Yr 6. Obviously my predicted grades are going to be low 😭😭😭
Ps I'm from Spain - only knew how to speak in Spanish and catalan
Are you dumb . They will look at mock exams aswell. Those are the biggest indicators of your grade. If you did bad in your mocks. Tough luck
Holly B lol. Did I trigger you that hard
Holly B fully got her mum uno
i can’t believe i’m not doing gcses. this is the best thing that has ever happened to me
Innit 😂💘
I know like what are the odds for something like this to happen to our year group it feels like a dream😂😂
Imagine not doing your a levels
Ahh yes very true,personally I am happy
Afnann I thought I was dreaming for so long😂😂
I just wanted to say thank you Mr Salles, I watched all of your Inspector Calls, L&R poetry and Christmas Carol videos and I got a 9 in my lit mock, two grades up from the previous mock. I hope I get 9 in the final grades and if I do it'll be thanks a lot to you!!
I hope so too!
Yeah! I went from a 6 to an 8 in English Lit thanks to this channel! I'm just hoping my teacher will give me the 8 😅
If they use my mock grades, then I’m never getting a job😭
Basing grades of of SATs is flawed - if they were based on something much more recent i think that would make it fairer
People could cheat on their mocks aswell, it’s just the GCSE papers from last years year 11.
Yeah a bunch of people cheated, it's so unfair
Surely if you’ve done brill consistently these last 5 years at high school (7,8,9), but according to your Sats results you’re predicted a 4, they’d p much discard the whole sats thing. Surely that makes much more sense
Thingy 101 I think depending on how well your teacher is aware of the step up they will adjust it, because I have the opposite issue where all my target grades are really high and am mostly not hitting them so I feel as though they won’t take them into account that much
yess I’m so worried about this because my targets are like 4 and 5 and in my mock exams and end of topic exams I get 7,8,9s and the only reason my target is so low is because of my sats so idk if they would put my grades down
Mr Salles, thanks so much I passed my gcse thanks your guide and book. The best!!! 😎
Well done, and thanks for letting me know
I feel bad for the year 11s because I got a 4 in my comprehension and reading (SATS) and 8s in both English GCSEs.
So I hope you guys get what you deserve.
I was predicted b’s in my GCSEs and in the end I got 6 A* and 3As.
Saheembeem Thank you this is similar to me but I got 7-9 grades in my gcses
Good student: I want to study and get all nines but now that’s impossible
Me: pass the spliff
I know people in my year group who have cheated in their mocks. Like c’mon now how is this fair...
I just got an acceptance conditional offer from my dream sixth form- a very competitive school. And then I remembered that my teachers are choosing my grades. I’m done out here😫
What about 6th form conditional offers? Could we still get rejected or will we 100% get to do our chosen subject?
L DN it’s going to work the same as it does every year, if your calculated grades meet the requirements for your course then you’ll get it, if they don’t then you can go through clearing or appeal the grade. However universities this year will also be using references and personal statements more so than they usually would when accepting students.
Protect this man at all cost
If you’re always on the verge of the next grade do u think they’ll round it up 😂 like if ur 2 marks off a 7 or a 6 can the teachers boost it according to attitude in class
yes
Good question I was wondering that!
My teacher would never do that sadly.
Depends on ur teacher tbh, also they’re doing this ranking thing so for example the ppl who r achieving near a grade above will be moved up and the ppl who r achieving near a grade below will be moved down
Hi. I'm really worried, based on SATS in Y6, I'm predicted 4's. But over the last 4 years, I've worked my arse off (and my teachers know), consequently, I got all 7's, 8's and one 9 in my mocks! Will it mainly be based on mocks (like I want it to be!), or will they use SATS? Thanks :)
ッ I feel like they’ll be based more on mocks- my SATS results actually got lost! I was predicted exactly what I got in the exams too so if that’s reassuring to you
Same
They are based on: Mocks, Teacher Assessment + Class Work
Same bro
sophie harrison idiots don’t know how hard I work since yr6 and that
As a teacher, I will not be responding to a student who asks me 'do you think I am at risk?'. Answering that question sets an expectation. The best policy is to not say anything.
I know it is a confusing and unsettling time for students. By all means ask questions about the process but recognise that you cannot do anything now to influence your grade. All the best.
I understand your reticence. It isn't about influencing the grade, it is about knowing whether to spend time revising for the exam when it comes, or whether to concentrate on preparing for next steps. We could definitely tell a student that we think they are at risk of not getting the grade they need.
Thanks for the video. I am a maths teacher working with a girl who is opting out of school. Have suggested she aims for an autumn exam, she is getting in the high 30's, which I think is not enough. Am going to forward your video to her mother
That's great, thank you. Also refer her to the link in the description so she can read Ofqual's position.
My business teacher predicted me a 6 even though I got an 8 in the mock and mostly 8's and 9's in other exams, we've only had her for a year as our other teacher left
Mr Salles: I am in year 12 and things are really difficult right now as I am completing A Level coursework at home and having to finish year 12 content independently. Do you think that 2021 A Level exams and grade boundaries will be adjusted accordingly?
jaffa they won’t adjust the grade boundaries themselves as grades are based off of how well people do as a cohort. E.g. the exam board won’t decide that you need a certain percentage for an A*, they will just take the top 5% of marks and those that are in that top bracket are awarded an A*- that’s how it’s always been and that’s how it was with GCSEs. This means that one year, you may only need 60% to get an A* and the next year you may need a higher percentage- it’s entirely dependant on the standards of those you are competing with. So if the whole country suffers from not being able to complete their final term (which I imagine they will), the grade boundaries will naturally be reduced
O livia I didn’t realise it was the same as GCSEs! Thank you so much for clarifying
@@jaffaroo6357 no worries hun
@@oliviawildblood1639 wait so will the exam be unchanged even though we haven't had the time to be taught all the content?
@@oliviawildblood1639 like for my a level geo exam some of the actual exam is based on data we were supposed collect on a trip in June. Since that's not gonna happen I dont think putting that in the exam would have any purpose since we wouldn't have the data to answer the questions on it ????
This was really helpful to understand better thank you, have been worrying about what will happen
I have been working at grades 7-9 throughout my secondary school experience, never dropping below a 7 in my mocks but there were MASSIVE issues with how my SATs were administrated, my school thinks that the wrong data was obtained. What happens now? Surely if my grades are much higher than target grades they have to accept that? All of my GCSE targets are 3’s and 4’s but I gained 4 grade 9’s in my mocks :/.
im in the same boat
Say If students were not bothered to revise for mocks and get low grade however they know aswell as teacher that, that student could have easily got a few grades higher?
what will happen then?
Sadly, you'll get the grade that there's evidence for. 😕
Ali Qamar The government said students will be able to sit GCSE exams ‘as soon as is reasonably possible’ after schools open, if you’re unhappy with some of your predicted grades.
If the teacher knows that student could have done better then there must be evidence to justify that thought in the first place. Hopefully that evidence is taken into account and boosts that student's grade, even if it's only by a single grade. Although, you could always re-sit later on.
if there’s no evidence to support that you could’ve got that grade then you’ll unfortunately get a low grade
@@bethking4354 I read that the teachers can give a predicted grade to a student without giving much physical evidence, so long as multiple teachers can reinforce their claim. For example if a student is performing at a grade 8 in English and the teacher knows this, however there is a lack of physical evidence due to a student missing their mocks or PPEs, the student can be given a grade 8 so long as multiple teachers can agree on that deserving grade. This means that a student can be given a good English grade for being generally formal and literate in speach, despite there being no papers to prove that. Don't quote me on that because this is new news and therefore could be false, however the fact that there is too much evidence (per student) to analyze (Mocks, PPEs, classwork, homework, extra assignments etc...) suggests that this is likely true as the exam board require no proof, only a grade for each student.
How many didn't take mocks too seriously, not expecting them to be so important? I've heard a few say that... 😓
At first it was all such a relief but now I cannot stop stressing about it all - my life will be over if I don’t get the English gcse grade I need...
Well, you can still take the exam. Do 30 minutes revision on it every day to stop yourself stressing
Hi Mr salles - I just wanted to say that your videos have helped me so so much and thanks to you I achieved near full marks in both papers 1 and 2 of my lit mock. Although I am still upset by the cancellations as I wanted to prove myself and the work I had been doing, I am so grateful to you for helping me to do well in the mock. I suppose I’ll just have to wait for a-level...
Lets go don’t have to carry on doing art coursework cheers sir
yung skengface r u sure about that cuz my teacher still wants me to finish my work and give it in every Tuesday and thursday
maahir123 well that’s what sir said in the video and showed he document at the end🤷♂️
Aren’t our UCAS predicted grades for A level holistically predicted by our teachers anyway? At least, for my school they were set based on our year 12 mocks and what the teacher realistically thought we would achieve during the exam. I just hope I get the same as my UCAS predicted.
Thats good because I wasn’t able to finish my NEA2 coursework!
My teachers are still setting work, so why am I doing it?
No unless you want to sit that subject in September
If you’re doing the subject at college you may as-well do it
And as preachy as it sounds, it's good to still keep your mind active. I'm going off to Uni this year (hopefully without any hiccups) and if I stopped working I don't feel I'd be prepared for that kind of transition. Even if it's just wider reading, it's still good to keep your mind on your subject(s).
papi chulo ok papi 😂😂 I am scared when it comes to grades I need AAA and my offer would never go down cos it’s medicine and it’s competitive. So i proably start revising in May in case , cos I don’t trust these teachers
Subhan Ahmed I want to do med too but I think they’re going to be more flexible accepting people into their schools because they understand that students are at a disadvantage
i hate this situation so much. i didn’t try hard enough in my mocks and class tests because i wanted to ‘put my all’ into my real gcse exams. brb i’m gonna cry
I didn’t take my maths exam seriously 😭 and I got a grade 3
Some people don’t get predicted high grades but end up getting the highest grades.
SWELLUMUP true this is why this system is offering differing options. Check out the update: th-cam.com/video/OolnWLM_X8M/w-d-xo.html
I’m thankful that I have the opportunity to retake anything I need to.
Hey, my school is a small school filled with a lot of slackers. Trust me, last year, I was one of the very few students who managed a B and an A in AS IAL. Lot's of student did really really bad. Now, does that mean regardless of my hardwork, I won't get my desired grades because other students did bad in year 11?
Jack Shack I find myself in a similar position. I consistently get 8s and 9s in my subjects but the previous years of my schools pass rates have been way below average. My year has the best grades that school has ever had, but I’m hoping that I don’t get moved down because of this :((
@@oliviawortley7409 damn, big relate.
Jack Shack really is bro :((
We’re still having Easter mocks even after the gov said no additional work is required. Anyone else?
That's sad
fizzah khan same for me 😭
fizzah khan ye isn’t it.
but how? at home? anyone could cheat
yeah me too
I wasn’t even in England when I was in yr6
I actually didn't revise as hard as possible for the mocks but ended up getting grades that im very happy with
Thank you so much for this
Sorry, but Ofqual and the gov have never said anything about SATs and Year 6 . They said prior attainment not checking what you did HALF A DECADE AGO! They do not use year 6 for your grades they do it based on the cohort and the percentiles.
Prior data means SATs for GCSE students. For A level students, it will be GCSE results.
@@MrSallesTeachesEnglish How do you know?
Could you give me the link to where it says that?
Our official computing teacher left last year and we've had a cover for the entirety of year eleven, so my grades have gone from 8/9's in computing to 6's. In my last assessment I got a 6 in paper 1... does this mean I'll get a 6 in my GCSE's? I'll be so upset.
It will be based on the 6, so probably a prediction of 7.
Thanks for making this
Thank you for making this video. This situation sucks and is going to end badly :(
iam honestly panicking i didnt to well in my mocks so i was hopping to do much better in my igcse
I wasn’t even in this country in Yr6 ,and even if they get them in my country grade 6 is the highest and is like grade 9 ,I feel like they will misunderstand the 6 as a “B”
Thanks Sir. God bless you. Glad the government has helped take the burden off students.
I'm getting mad the the people who are saying that it's unfair to use their mocks because they didn't revise for them and it isn't a true reflection of their skills.
Newsflah: that's on you. Coronavirus or not you should've revised for your mocks, because in the very rare occasion that you are in hospital ect... and can't take your GCSE's, they usually use your mock grades. It's yall's faults for not revising for your mocks, and no one else's.
Like if there was a genuine reason why you couldn't revise properly ect... for your mocks, then that's fine. But if you have low grades just because you were lazy then that is your fault.
How can I prepare for A level English Literature?
I will make a video on this!
Hi I am not a student, I am a Science Graduate. I had a query, why should a student's performance in year 6 decide, how they would do in year 11.
That's like half a decade, a child's brain is still developing and they could have done a lot better. To put emphasise on a 5 year gap, people can age and look totally different in that time. What would be the point of them doing assessments, and attending classes (for 5 years), when they are just going to get as what they would have had at age 11
My story: I was bullied by other students, in my primary school, and did not get support from my school. Had a 3,3,3 in my SATS. Learnt to read and write at 12, although my grades picked up, instead of my school updating this, they default put my actual grade as a predicted grading the following year.
E.G: I got in top set maths and had the highest in my year A*, but my report card said I got an E. I got fed up and my MUM sent me to a private school. My GCSE's were a string of A's. I personally think that teachers perceptions on judging students based on grades years before should change, anything could change in 5 years.
You do have great advice, I wanted you to know my story as peoples perceptions and outlook on things could change, in the state school I went to I became a laughing stock by the teachers who looked at me as a "waste of space" when wanting to get into the higher paper. In private school, I got the highest in my school, which had exams that were harder.
Well done on your achievements. The teacher's grade will be the most important fact, but it will be compared to how students in the school did in year 6 and how, over the last two years, students in year 11 made progress.
So, a student given a grade 7 by a teacher will probably still get grade 7, but they may also be moved to a 6 or an 8 after those other factors are taken into account.
Mr Salles let's say that someone's grades based on SATS are 5s however they've achieved 7s and 8s in their mocks will the SATS grades make a difference or just be disregarded
hi! i never did sats in primary school so i was wondering what would happen for students who are like me in this position? all my target grades are 7s for every subject (just a neutral grade they chose) and i usually get 7s/8s/9s. would not having done sats affect the grade i am predicted?
Exactly I was wondering the same
how come you didn't do sats? wtf
Bangtanshook i went to a private school in primary, we did internal exams instead
Bangtanshook not everyone was in the country
Wow! So when my head of year kept going on about how important mocks were, little did we know that they would be this important...
this is all ridiculous bc they’re PREDICTING what im gonna do on the exam IF i would have taken it. what if ppl didint do well on mocks bcus they didint have time to revise yet, how can u KNOW how ppl will do on an exam they’ve never took. im so annoyed rn
Hi, just wondering, i done quite bad in my mocks but i have revised and re learned a lot of the stuff since then, what are the chances of that being recognised and not getting similar to the mocks
It depends on what your teacher has seen. My guess is that you will want to take the exams if your mocks are bad.
Benstar unless you’re teacher has the evidence very bad to say. Check out the link: th-cam.com/video/OolnWLM_X8M/w-d-xo.html
Also I have another question. Do they really expect people to apply for cambridge by october 15th now that all the oxbridge help events have been cancelled?
as soon as i here'd talk of SATS being involved i shat myself
I personally think they should base it on attainment in Year 11, simply
Hi and thank you. That confirmed my understanding of the situation.
One of ny students is completely homeschooled and I'm solely responsible for his grade. I've been seeing him for less than a year as he was excluded last February but he only got funding for tuition last June..
He was due to sit the exams as a private student in a college but that was literally just using the college as an exam centre for the purpose of complying with exam regs. In other words, they've had nothing to do with teaching him.
He did mocks in December (which I marked). Since the cancellation we are working in coursework/extended essays, which I will submit to the college after I mark them, along with my predicted grades and the mocks. Otherwise I'll have very little evidence in which to base my predictions.
My question is... he has made extraordinary progress since his exclusion which was for his own protection. He has gone up from grade 3/4 in June 2019 to 7/8 now
If I can't submit the coursework, how can I prove it?
Thank you
Don’t worry guys I’m sure you will get the grades you deserve from your revision
Hi Im a private candidate (Eng Lit) and just had a call from the exam centre. They told me I won't be sitting the exam this year, not even in November, and my grade will be awarded as predicted grade from my tutor. They also gave me the option to sit the exam next year at much cheaper rate. Those who are 16 or doing Maths and Eng Lang are likely to be given the option of predicted grade or to sit in November. I don't know if this implies to all the private candidates but I thought to share.
Thank you ever so much for a very informative video.
Top bloke. Should share a Carling
They’re using homework? What’s that? Who’s she ?
Thank You. For Some Great Advise .👍
When you discuss SATs, do you mean that these will be taken into account by teachers/exam boards when calculating our grade? Or do you mean that the exam boards/teachers will loom at how the whole country overall has performed (so overperformed or underperformed) in comparison to their Y6 results to see if it matches with past years ? As my SATs are not great but have worked at grades 7 and above for GCSE so if it is the former it will lower what I should have got. Hope that makes sense.
Jack R I think it’s the year 6 SATs because they provide your target grades throughout secondary school and sixth form / college. I think it’s a guideline. Hope that helps or even makes sense
Amy For individual students or a whole cohort?
Jack R I believe it will be individual. If you did well in them it can boost your grade if you didn’t they will probably discount it and use note recent data but it should be your individual grades not the classes
Wow How is that good news
RANKING ORDER????
I AM SO SCREWED!! 😭😭
What if I did badly all year 😭😭😭
Do you think this year’s year 11 will eventually have higher grade boundaries for A Level because we’ve had such an unprecedented long time to prepare?
I hope not
Maybe for A and A* but for D-B it should be fine because majority of students will not study still.
Hi, I think I’ve performed rlly badly in my mocks and it’s not a gd reflection of what I could actually do.... will this significantly lower my gcse grades?
ΛCΞ it will be based on mocks, attitude towards learning, SATs, potential grades etc.
My teacher still saying that the work we do now will improve our grades even after I told him this.
Point your teacher to the Ofqual publications on gov.uk about GCSE and A-level grades.
For English I got a grade 3 in the exam but in class I've been getting grade 4's in class and now I'm scared what if I get a grade 3
Creating Magic this depends on what the teacher has seen. Check out the latest update: th-cam.com/video/OolnWLM_X8M/w-d-xo.htmlž
You’re a gem Mr Salles
I got predicted a 6 in gcse maths and science but both subjects teachers knew that I was gonna get a grade 9 which I did later on. School usually predict people lower than what they actually get so predicted grade is very unfair. Also mocks are called mocks because they are mocks and people don’t try so that’s also very unfair
I’m scared ahh
I was predicted from my year 6 grades to get passing GCSE grades and 4s and 5s at best .In year 11 I have mostly gotten 7-9s (except french with still a high pass) on my mocks .Now I don’t want this to effect my actual grades being dragged down because of my year 6 grades .Tho statistics are wonderful things they are quiet ridiculous for some people who can make a lot of progress .Plus they’re counting a grade from 5 years ago as .
Your Kindred spirit nah bro it’s based off mocks , work finished and the teachers overall assessment of you as a student. Was emailed to me by my school
I failed my mocks so I guess I'm screwed....
bruh same like I know sooo many people who did really bad in their mocks and now we all are just hoping for the teachers to be nice now, honestly this isn't fair cause like I didn't even try that much for my mocks :(
I missed my SATs because I was sick my school said it wasn’t that important but if I knew it would be something that would be highlighted throughout my secondary years, I would resit it. But because I’ve missed it I’ve been predicted 6s and 7s even though majority of subjects I’m doing is foundation and my mock results was 3s and 4s so basically I’m so depressed because I’m a failure not doing GCSEs and doing GCSEs not making a difference.
I wanted to be that guy who commented GCSE 2020 on all the comment sections but my dream will never go through :(
What about the guys who are sitting exams privately
Sooo basically I’m going to fail my GCSEs without even doing them. It’s not fair. I’ve been working so hard since I’ve done so bad in my mocks and class assessments. My revision technique was so bad I didn’t know how to revise I tried very hard. Now as I’m starting to improve they CANCEL them exams. And now they are going to be using the grades we have achieved in the past. This is not going to be fair for so many students. I won’t get into the sixth form I’ve applied to and I won’t be able to retake because my sixth form won’t do that for new students. I’m devastated and I’m extremely stressed. Everything is just ruined for me and a lot of other students too.
Once the holidays are over, you should phone them. 6th forms need cash, so I imagine they would ask you to take the exams as soon as they are available. You should keep revising the subjects you are passionate about or need if you know your mocks are just not good enough.
Mr Salles Teaches English thanks for the reply :). the thing is I’ve received a conditional offer there and I won’t be able to meet the grade requirements with this new grading system 😓. And due to the fact that it is an independent grammar school, I have a feeling that they won’t be as considerate if I miss the requirements or want to take the exams in autumn. Please may I have some advice 😢.
Mr Salles Teaches English and yes my mocks are not good enough, but will that be the only thing used to calculate my grade? Because I know my teachers can’t look at our books because they hardly mark them and we have them.
What about the people who are giving exams in the winter
we've all been fucked. i remember telling my self AS grades won't matter nothing matters except the final exam I do. Well the Government has ruined my grades. Time to learn from home and start a business. Oh boy here we go!
Hi mr Salles, I’m in year 10 and I was wondering what would happen. About the grade boundaries, as if we go back in September that’s 6 months of education lost and therefore will have a lasting impact on our GCSEs.
Caitlyn Ball well that’s kind of y u should do your homelearning tasks
I was wondering if this is going to be the same at private schools? Just because so far we are being told to carry on with work and we will continue with this work after the Easter holidays online. I’m not sure if it’s because they are being cautious or making sure my parents have a reason to still pay the fees. But I just have no motivation at the moment to do the work they’re setting. It’s like there’s no goal anymore. I passed all my mocks and never did SATs, instead entrance exams which they never told us the results for. I’m just worried I’m making a mistake by not doing any work. The only work I’m properly continuing with is art and photography, which almost seems like a joke now.
I would get started on A level - this does apply to private schools. Show the link in the description to your parents, and make a plan.
Mr Salles Teaches English ok, thank you for replying
Mock judgement is not fair. Many students do not try because they have been told that they don’t matter. Many teachers I had told me that they won’t affect my end grade. Look where we are now
That's what I mean about new schools! I would never give that advice.
As a teacher myself the message I always give pupils is take mocks seriously ! Some sixth forms look at mock results , and this case your GCSE grades depends on it.
Im worried af. he said if u didnt do any mocks then ill have to do the exams whenever they are available. however ive already retaken one year and if i do exams in autumn, ill miss another year........... is it 100% that i will have to do exams in autumn and they cant use my school's predicted grades + the teacher input of my ability?
You could look at the link in the description or watch the whole video
For those in year 13, will they look at GCSE results, as they look at year 6 results for year 11s?
so if I reckon I will get a 6 and want to get an 8 can I resit regardless because for top unis like imperial they ask for good GCSE results
Yes
Can you explain GCSE predicted grade for adult students who are resitting? As adult learning is different to young teenagers. Thank you.
I love u thanks for everything
My art teacher keeps asking me for my work, should I do it or just chill out:)
Hand it in now
@Mr Salles Teaches English but she wants all of us to do work and submit it in every Tuesday and Thursday through email
My teacher told me do coursework while at home
what about if a student didn't went to year 6 and straight away he started going to year 7 as he new langguge.
for explain me,English is my first language but now i can write and read other people and i am in set 3 which is will good for me .
What if my Predicted grade is decent but my sat results weren't so good? For example, what if my rp in english is a 6 but my target grade from sats is a 4.
In our school, we didn't do mocks for all of our subjects and for some reason I failed my maths mocks and my teacher said thats very unlikely of me as I usually pass every time so I don't know what the outcome will be, I really hope I pass. I usually get 4's and 5's but in the maths mocks I got a 3 overall :(
Let’s say I got a 3 in the latest mock exam for English Language but in previous English Language mock exams I got far higher such as 5/6, would that be taken into consideration?
They only give you the grades you have evidence for. But if you were like a couple marks of a 4 they would probs give u a 4
jUBjUBjELLY 4 that’s literally not even fair though. My sister failed all her mock which gave her a reality check. She revised a lot which led her to getting straight 8s and 9s
Simply Cloudy unfortunately that is the reality but teachers would try to give you the best grades as possible