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Leaving Cert 2021: Impact of standardisation on accredited grades

Fine Cheers · 2021-09-08 11:03:10

4 of my daughter's grades were reduced by circa 4% but this reduction also impacted on grades and ultimately points. For example, in higher level maths, the school awarded 83%, standardisation reduced it to 79% so 12 points less. This happened in 4 subjects = 48 points which means she didn't get the course she wanted. It's…

08-09-2021 11:03AM

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Fine Cheers

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4 of my daughter's grades were reduced by circa 4% but this reduction also impacted on grades and ultimately points.
For example, in higher level maths, the school awarded 83%, standardisation reduced it to 79% so 12 points less.
This happened in 4 subjects = 48 points which means she didn't get the course she wanted.
It's just cruel to see the 2 grades side by side - this is what the the school thought of you based on continuous assessments etc but actually we can't give you that.
Appeals process will only check for clerical errors etc.

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Purefrank128

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How did your daughter do in the actual exams? (Clearly not as well as the school thought she would do, otherwise there would be no issue.)

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