Please reconsider the plan you have constructed for awarding our grades. It will save students huge amounts of pressure, burden and stress, and prevent massive disadvantages created by these informal assessments (internally and externally). We need ensure that students have the support they need to get through this pandemic as well as the preparation they need for university.
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The school should ensure the IB and alevel students fairness, and since both exams are cancelled, The final alevel mock papers should be OPTIONAL
I think optional exams would be an appropriate way to conduct assessments and appoint students final grades. It not only allows students to focus their efforts on subject which still require further evidence for certain grades, but also relieves a significant amount of stress on students who feel overwhelmed and emotionally fatigued, which proves to be the overwhelming majority.
Although I am an IB student, I believe it to be deeply unfair that these assessments are not optional. If students or teachers feel as though they need more evidence to achieve a certain grade, they should take exams. However, making it compulsory for everyone causes unnecessary stress that could be otherwise prevented. As a school that promotes maintaining wellbeing under academic pressure, I think it is vital that as a school we align our words with our actions.
Teachers should consult with us on what standard grade we are working at and then we should have the CHOICE of taking exams if we feel we want to give evidence of improvement!
The school has no right to gdefend giving us exams when the government have never stated they were necessary
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I really hope the school will hear us out and work together with all stakeholders to find a win-win solution regarding this important matter.
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Please reconsider the plan you have constructed for awarding our grades. It will save students huge amounts of pressure, burden and stress, and prevent massive disadvantages created by these informal assessments (internally and externally). We need ensure that students have the support they need to get through this pandemic as well as the preparation they need for university.
Updates
March 11, 2021
The momentum behind this is incredible. It shows exactly how much weight this issue carries for all of us.
Reached 100 supporters
March 11, 2021
10 Comments
Make them optional so that if we feel like we are happy with our grades now then we just continue to provide evidence with essays etc but if we aren’t in one subject or all we take the exams to further the evidence
The school should ensure the IB and alevel students fairness, and since both exams are cancelled, The final alevel mock papers should be OPTIONAL
I think optional exams would be an appropriate way to conduct assessments and appoint students final grades. It not only allows students to focus their efforts on subject which still require further evidence for certain grades, but also relieves a significant amount of stress on students who feel overwhelmed and emotionally fatigued, which proves to be the overwhelming majority.
Although I am an IB student, I believe it to be deeply unfair that these assessments are not optional. If students or teachers feel as though they need more evidence to achieve a certain grade, they should take exams. However, making it compulsory for everyone causes unnecessary stress that could be otherwise prevented. As a school that promotes maintaining wellbeing under academic pressure, I think it is vital that as a school we align our words with our actions.
Teachers should consult with us on what standard grade we are working at and then we should have the CHOICE of taking exams if we feel we want to give evidence of improvement!
The school has no right to gdefend giving us exams when the government have never stated they were necessary
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Make them optional so that if we feel like we are happy with our grades now then we just continue to provide evidence with essays etc but if we aren’t in one subject or all we take the exams to further the evidence