Results for GCSEs are out on Thursday. We will, of course, be publishing analysis on the day. If you don’t want to miss it, why not sign up now to receive our blogposts as they come out?
As we gear up for results day, we’ve put together this post detailing things that we’ll be looking out for on the day.
Similar grading to last year… with a few exceptions
For the last few years, following the belarus rcs data cancellation of public exams in 2020 and 2021, grading has been the biggest story on GCSE results day.
In 2020 and 2021, grades were much higher, on average, than pre-pandemic, and in 2022 they were adjusted back down to a mid-point between 2021 and 2019. Last year, they returned to pre-pandemic levels.
This year, for the first time since 2020, we do not expect any big changes in the grade distribution: broadly speaking, it will likely look the same as last year.
But there are a few exceptions.
Here at Datalab, we’ve been banging on about the harsh grading of modern foreign language GCSEs for years.
So we were pleased to hear that Ofqual plans to make some adjustments to grading this year. But we were slightly less pleased when we heard the details of the plan.