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How are people feeling about the predicted grades now the English and Scottish system

  • 13-08-2020 4:19pm
    #1
    billybonkers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,293 ✭✭✭


    My younger siblings are waiting their results and all the news from the UK does not look good, many students missing out on places due to the models not predicting accurate grades. They are very worried now


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  • #2
    openup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 121 ✭✭openup


    This systemes are completely different. And Irish students won't know if they have been "marked-down" as they won't find out what the teacher gave them. I'm the UK students have predicted grades all the way through school so they knew what they were "supposed to achieve". Irish students don't have that so they're won't be the same level of dissapointment.

    Also, as the CAO is supply and demand based, if everyone is marked down it shouldn't have too much of an effect as everyone is in the same boat. Not so for UK students who will have been told by the universities what specific grades they needed based on their GCSEs and interview so if they're knocked down from an A* to an A that's game over. Whereas here you only need 600 points if everyone else gets 600 points.


  • #3
    tiktoktoegirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23 ✭tiktoktoegirl


    Desperate time call for desperate measures so I don’t see how it could have been done differently tbh. Maybe students should have been given the option to sit the exams if they wanted? From the 6th years I know most of them were delighted with just getting predicted grades so it wouldn’t be a huge amount of people taking the tests anyways.

    Personally had I been in that position I would have been so, so disappointed though. Especially considering the amount of people who’d get good scores by having cheated in the mocks and class tests, while I and many others would have gotten worse marks by being honest.

    I’m definitely glad I’ve not been put in that position, I’m starting fifth year now so I’ll definitely try to be as consistently good throughout this year and the next as a precaution lol


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