Covid-19 UK A-Level results: Top grades nearly DOUBLE in 2 years since exams ditched amid lockdown
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- Опубліковано 11 гру 2024
- Coronavirus latest: STUDENTS have scored record A-Level results this year after the number of top grades almost doubled under teacher assessment.
A whopping 45% of grades were at A* and A this year, sky-rocketing from the 25% registered when exams were last held in 2019.
A staggering 44.3% of 18-year-olds achieved A-A* grades, whereas 44.8% of all students regardless of age got A-A*.
The number of pupils getting a B and above has also risen sharply to 70% with those at private schools and in London among the biggest winners.
But while the proportion of top grades has grown, the percentage of those at C to E has remained "relatively stable".
Officials admitted that the discrepancy is partly down to teachers giving their pupils "some benefit of the doubt".
Just under one in five (19%) of all grades awarded was at the top A* level.
And a massive 12,945 students in England registered three A*s compared to 7,774 last year and just 2,664 in 2018.
For the second year in a row final results were graded by teachers after exams had to be scrapped due to missed learning during lockdown.
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A-Level results: Top grades nearly DOUBLE in 2 years since exams ditched as 45% get A* or A
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The whole of the UK realises these hyperinflated grades won't stand scrutiny in the real world.
Were entitled
@@momochallenge8778 *We're
@@rjkmusicmedia Ok boomer
We also note the great number of miserable curmudgeons commenting here. We all know that teacher-assessed grades are closer to continuous assessment than to a "one good day" performance, but what you gain from that you lose from having no outside opinion.
@@momochallenge8778 1988 isn't part of the 'Baby Boomer' generation. You can't even meme coherently!
as someone who literally is part of this group. I completely acknowledge my grades are a scam, ridiculous stuff. Clearly the UK has decided to transfer economic policy of printing money hoping no one will notice over to schools printing A level results.
You did Economics a level?
A-levels are gay.
Absolutely spot on. Although the currency supply is 97% digital bank deposits and 3 % physical cash so it's even easier to create billions with a few keystrokes on a keyboard.
Yep its credential hyper inflation. They are practically worthless. People need to stop going to force them to reevaluate. Many industries are already ignoring qualifications because it has become essentially useless in determining the quality of applicants.
@Patrick Swan No you dont. Not in the UK unless its a protected title.
Engineering isn't here and nor should it be its pretty demonstrably evident if someone has the acumen and the understanding fairly trivially and qualifications aren't cutting it with thinning the herd unfortunately because understanding engineering doesn't even seem to be a prerequisite for most undergrad courses these days.
I rarely if every look at qualifications for engineering applicants before interviewing them (in fact I have found that often the worst applicants tend to be graduates). It's meaningless.
This is a totally ridiculous situation, I'll admit, but top grades aren't an indicator of nothing. 6.9% got 3 A*s. That's much higher than normal, but it at least indicates something. People will be aware of this grade inflation and take it into account.
For me, this is a good situation, as I'm probably at the lower end of that 6.9%. For lots of the people I know who are much smarter than me, I can imagine this is incredibly frustrating. This probably doesn't feel like it's an achievement at all. They worked so hard for 2 years just to be lumped in with a bunch of people much less deserving than them.
I agree. We shouldn't be awarding top grades to idiots as it just ruins the point of a top grade.
A lot of university acceptance are conditional. The university I am at is having a large number of students influx and cant even provide housing because a lot of students are getting top results. What a weird situation to be in.
Will they? Year groups either side will suffer when applying for jobs. It matters massively when they leave year-group peer comparisons. Shame on our education system. We should protect the elite minds at all costs, not chuck em in with everyone else.
Aren't an indicator of *anything.
Was an A* of yours in English?
@@kaynkayn9870 Thats the unis fault, they new the situation would be similar, they should have given out less offers and been more forgiving on people if they missed offers if they need to fill spaces. Oxbridge was well prepared for it and there wont be a massive intake for them becuase of it
In a country where the dirtiest kebab shop got a 5 star "food hygiene rating" sticker on the window I am not even surprised.
lol
@@killuminatoV01 Based? Based on what?
@@nojakthegemlad Sadge
@@nojakthegemlad Based on this being based, and you being cringe + bluepilled.
I actually feel sorry for many of these kids. They have been deceived.
@@leondaventus6981 Elaborate
as one of them, don't, just means the system is easier to cheat lmao
@@thedemiurge170 I've gotten pretty far with cheating. I also work hard too but I cheated plenty.
@@cixlo definitely very interested in your anecdotes
Why? They got good grades
“The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.” ~ H.L. Menchken
Yeah because I can come up with new theoretical concepts that make sense without all that education propaganda regarding fundamental mathematical concepts and science.
I’m being sarcastic if you can’t tell.
Well… Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. 🙃🥴🤷🏻♂️
@@thelaurencerh and your comment was the lowest form of intelligence.
@Alex Insulting people who you don’t even know over a harmless comment is just petty and childish. Take your BS somewhere else.
@Alex Why so salty???
The problem is not people being uneducated;
The problem is that they are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question what they have been taught.
The whole time throughout my course I was wondering what the point of the teacher was. They didn't teach us anything. If youtube didn't exist where I can learn from some indian guy that had to figure everything out the hard way. I and everyone else would have failed the course hard.
Fortune-cookie level pseudo-intellectualism. Stop talking out of your arse.
What can I question about my Maths education? What hidden agendas could be present in my Chemistry practical? Who let you have internet? Many Questions?
I'm 14 and this is deep
Sounds about right.
Need to be taught common sense, the ability to think for oneself & that consideration for others is a virtue.
pffft I think that ship has sailed!
@Harry Harry If we import trash, we end up with trash lol
I dont know about you guys but I have a GCSE in critical thinking so they kinda are doing this... just dont go to a school where you only take 6 subjects maybe
The system is designed to make you a cattle for life from birth to death. Work for rubbish wages, pay your taxes and never question anything. No chance will they ever create a nation of free thinkers. People would realise how rigged the system is and that democracy is a illusion. Revolt would happen the next day.
1) You can't teach common sense, but you can 'educate' to eradicate it. 2) Maybe you haven't paid enough attention to know that so-called common sense isn't all that common anymore. 3) Virtue-signalling is today's only virtue. 4) Thinking for oneself gets people cancelled.
Grade inflation is one of the main reasons why so many students struggle to find decent jobs nowadays. This has in fact been a long- running problem in this country.
can you prove this at all? Cheers.
Many A level students will go on to apprenticeships where they're guaranteed a job. Others will go to Universities, where the unis have ties to certain businesses thus allowing students to get a job with the uni or with a close business after graduation.
Those who don't get a high skilled job will be placed into mid tier skilled jobs, and I've seen cases where that person who has a mid tier job will be offered more opportunities to climb the career ladder for simply going to uni.
So nothing to do with the lack of decent jobs, it's the grade inflation.
@Kalvin Clein
Of course it's never perfect, but I know loads of people, low grades and high grades, average unis and russell group unis, where they've all eventually got to where they wanted to go in life.
@@tomhalpin1 I don’t think he can lol he’s clearly chatting
A lot of people in this comment section are making comments without knowing how it rlly worked . We had to take the exams. In many peoples cases more than normal. They took into account exams we did that we didn't even know were gonna make up our final grade when we did them. Yes, they were marked by teachers and I do agree its silly when different schools are gonna give higher grades than others. But at the end of the day what was meant to happen? Covid meant huge chunks of learning was missed there was no obvious way around this so show a bit of sympathy
You really think 50% of the country deserves the top 2 grades whilst then making every previous year prior unable to compete with your grades on paper? It's laughable that this has happened, if you don't think it's utterly stupid then you probably don't deserve the grades you got either.
They can show sympathy but still, keep standards. They have literally devalued every other year group's grades who worked really hard under extremely stressful situations too and probably put in far far more hours revising without coursework components to back them up. Besides socially, you lot have had a pretty relaxed 2 years on the work side of things. Uni students have had to essentially carry on as normal for the most part and still work under the same conditions.
To be fair, I understand your poinjt, but these teacher assessments were anything but fair, with certain teachers giving no extra help to students, and some doing open book testing, with some cases of teachers grading based on how they feel about the student instead of the student's ability
A* is now the standard, rather than for the exceptional. Good luck getting a job when everyone has the same qualification.
That's not how it works, they will go to uni and do a degree which previous years worked hard to get onto that course and in 10 years no one will remember, hell they might even be picked for the same job as someone else for having better a-levels.
@@gordonramsdale yeah exactly.
@@gordonramsdale Except if they are dumb and didn't deserve the A, they will also be dumb at uni.
Let’s close all schools & we’ll have a 100% pass rate. These poor kids are now going to go to university, many thinking they are smarter than they really are & flunk a degree they should never of been taking, ending up £50k in debt. So what’s next to celebrate, record Ofsted results because our schools are amazing 😂
It’s never have* not never of, you ignorant fool.
Regardless of that, A-Levels are next level hard there’s no way if these kids actually took their exams they would be being rewarded with A’s like it’s nothing lol.
@@daemontargaryen2312 You're the fool for calling him a fool. And an ignorant one at that. (yes, I wanted to use a capital And at the beginning of that last sentence - my choice).
I'm just going to say it; the UK has an awful education system that is nowhere near 'good'.
Congratulations your qualifications are worth less than the paper they're printed on 😂
We're entitled
@@momochallenge8778 *were
my qualifications i got in 2018 got me into university last year, studying robotics and rocketry. Going to be working on orbital construction and manufactory for the next generation spacecraft
@@MrChalmers99 thats incredible man, well done. Those are the few things university is worth going for. Its not needed if you ask me, everything you learn there can be taught at home but you have access to equipment in universities.
@@Holden_McHock we're*
oh yes because students are twice as clever this year - what an absolute embarrassment. Should be reviewed at once.
Why are you angry children are getting good a levels? Gtfo old man
You’re probably just triggered seeing loads of A level students getting A*’s whilst you were getting Cs/Ds.
Imagine having such a sad life where you think there must be a deflation in grades😂
@@cascadel2199 I got C's
I assume after all this we're going to need a new qualification? Because they've trashed the names of all those current.
Hurray, more children can go to their indoctrination camp of choice.
A conveyor belt creating woke, mentally damaged young adults
@@Tinto2
What your saying is right. But we can’t do anything this is the system now and if we don’t go to university we are seen as failures.
What false things do they teach at uni?
Edit: forgot to ask, in which ways does uni indoctrinate people?
Honestly I don't think it's the Universities that ddo it. In my sixth form it's very left wing already. Young people gonna young
@@magicsteve5523 the belief amongst people in the comment section is that universities turn children into marxists...i'm not kidding.
Isn't it that if the highest grade in an exam was a B, then that B becomes an A and the rest climbs up a level in turn?
Yeah, the grades are stabilised each year, by Cambridge. This just shows, if you let a teachers assess, he/she will say "wow look how good they did, I am an amazing teacher, everyone passes, I get a promotion , more money
& security. They fear their jobs & want more, simple. This is the result, a joke on education.
So they did better learning by themselves than by a teacher in a class ....okey dokey
Maybe but really its just mickey mouse qualifications
No, they didn't have to do exams, that's why everyone's got As
@@TiggyRainbow Everyone had to do mini exams or assessments in the final weeks of school in May or earlier. Every school had to provide a certain amount of evidence from a student to justify their given grade, the strongest and most impactful evidence being the most recent mini exams mixed with some old assessments done before lockdown.
So yes, some people don't deserve the As they got however As weren't simply given out for free, people had to work for them and students were under a lot of stress considering they were only told exams were cancelled in late Jan and had gone through 3 lockdowns in 1 academic year.
@@user-wm1zg1dh8f nah theyll die at imperial college/cambridge/oxford for sure because these three unis are exam heavy lol. Unless they go to mickey mouse unis like nottingham trent or sheffield hallam they wont survive lol.
@@Machozz lmao so true it’s over for them
Not hard when you lower requirements and inflate figures.
I've gotten all A's in the A-level exams I taken in 2018. I just hope that this grade inflation won't affect my generation or future cohorts' job opportunities. I agree with all the people saying that perhaps exams aren't a good representation of intelligence/competence in a subject because we can have bad days, but that's literally been the NORM of the the past 20+ years or longer which means everyone is having the risk of a bad day making it fair. For one or two cohorts to just skip on it because of covid and get estimated marks as the actual results is ridiculous. I'm at uni at the moment and we still had to sit our exams even with the remote learning etc. I don't see why a-levels and GCSEs had to be different.
Having just coursework and continuous assessment in that time is preferable to just exams. Some people are just not good with one day exams, but excell at coursework and they should not be penalised for it, especially of they are autistic or have severe depression or something of that nature.
I feel for these kids, they are going to get a culture shock when they go to university and are given actual exams and assignments. A lot of them won't be able to cope with the pressure. It's not their fault, it is the government's fault for lowering standards. Not everyone can get into university, this will only result in more people dropping out from university.
A levels are now easier and the 'teacher assessments' are just a joke.
DUMBED DOWN!!??
Not so easy to control those who are smart.
Spot on, DUMBED DOWN TO THE MAX. A shameful travesty for education. Exams, exam conditions & strict grading is the only way for the truth!
Easier compared to when? The exams have been consistently increasing in difficulty over the years, but these teacher assessments were pretty garbage I'll admit - incredibly biased since there's no way to judge if that teachers assumption is correct
@@spingebill4392 How do you explain the fact that A* (1) GCSE students have been shown unable to pass the old O levels? Anyone with more than half a brain who's lived long enough can easily see that today's young people are not smarter than their elders. Education has been increasingly dumbed down, and the common sense that used to serve the country so well is sadly not very common anymore. Young people have been sold a lie that they're all smart. Much of what they think they know is propaganda. Too many university degrees aren't worth the paper they are written on any more than these A level results, and will leave their holders with significant debts that the jobs they get won't justify. And what about the kids that don't get A* and A's? Anything less than an A no longer has much credibility! Grade inflation doesn't actually serve young people, employers, or the country. It only serves the Government. And I wouldn't trust the judgement of the average teacher. Most teachers are hardly the brains of Britain. They do what they need to do to keep their jobs. And if that means passing someone who only got their name right, I know for a FACT that that is what they will do!
I got given very bad grades because I never focused in classes or did homework. So I redid my exams and got 2 grades above what I was predicted in all my subjects, shows how much your teachers “know” about your performance
So the Covid way of life is good for the country and even better for students. Got it. 😂👍
Just nt uni students
And climate change -let's not forget Davos from last year...
We're entitled
Working from home is pretty sweet.
Last year I was predicted to get 2 A*s and an A, but a year and a half ago I suffered from a brain injury and wasn’t in school for most of the year and I ended up getting CDD. My teachers said they’d take my disability into account and increase my grades but they clearly didn’t. So not everyone has experienced inflated grades.
Oh my god that’s awful! You should definitely appeal your grades, that’s so unfair! I hope you’re feeling alright now though
@@ellataylor2291 yeah I’m going to. It really is unfair, I was literally in hospital for months and I got a U for each of my final exams because I wasn’t well enough to do them. And thank you, I’m recovering very slowly, but hopefully one day I’ll feel a bit better 🙂
I’m so sorry for you if you don’t mind me asking what happened?
@@박기우-v2q I had a snowboarding accident when I was on holiday last February. Someone crashed into me and I fell off a small cliff and hit my head on a tree. Even though I was wearing a helmet I had a pretty bad head injury and was in a coma for a while. Now I have regular seizures and I struggle to learn and remember things, which made a-levels even more difficult.
@@Han_Jeewon Oh Annie, my deepest sympathies for you. Sending you lots of love and best wishes for a speedy recovery.
This comment section is hilarious 🤣
I agree though, grades/Uni degrees don’t mean anything nowadays. Better off finding yourself an apprentice job and working your way up gathering experience or climbing up companies ladder to eventually start your own business.
Nope, grade inflation was horrific this year and last year and uni degrees mean a lot less too but a degree is the key to a LOT of jobs (even if an apprenticeship would be better in some fields). .
@@caine7024 agree to disagree.
Comment section full of 40 year olds that's why 😂😂😂
Weirdly this should be true , but isnt. You really do need a degree for basically any decent job. I dont know why the system cares, as most degrees that arent STEM at the top 10 unis are pointless, and kids get drunk.
@@talha1349 wrong
I was predicted BBC and was getting BBD all year round…. Yet I walked away with ECE and no Uni place…. Not many of the kids at my sixth form are happy with the grades either so I was hella surprised when I found out over half of the results were As…
U need to get ur grades appealed cus that's a big drop hope you get the grades you deserve in the future and don't feel down abt it cus this whole year has been a mess keep smiling :)
@@F.4rva I’m definitely getting them appealed, but my head of Six form told me I won’t have priority because I’m not going to Uni this year 🙃 so I got the hell out of there and within 6 hours I am now enrolled with a college starting a level 3 course worth 3 Alevels in September. I’ll prove to them that they were wrong to do that, and I will 1000% keep smiling ☺️ thanks 💜
Yeonjunie_ ARMY I'm inspired from a badass like u 😌nd yes show them stuff it in their face if u have to btw I'm army too :)💜
@@F.4rva omg really?! And thanks 😘 Sadly I’m not actually a bad ass, but I will still do better than my best! Believe it or not I’m so far from a bad ass that I’m actually hella quiet and shy at school 😅 but it’s always amazing to get support from a fellow ARMY 💜
@@yeonjunie_army6455 Don't worry, I failed twice back in 2015, ended up doing a level 3 in IT and biology, got into a top apprenticeship and am now approaching 6 figures with my salary in IT.
My advice - apply for some summer placements do your level 3 and get into a top degree apprenticeship.
10 years ago- boss= you've got A*s in maths, english and science wow! You got the job.
Now- boss= you've got A*s in maths, english and science, so? everyone else who has handed a cv in has that as well. So what do you have that you can really offer me to give you this position. 😂😂
Back then they didn’t care about qualifications it was about whether or not you were good at the job.
Now your Locked behind a qualification but the job itself is easy
I can speak 6 languages and play 11 instruments...lmao
chill
@@baeseulgi1742 Congratulations. You've got the job as CSR for McDonalds Luton.
That’s not how it works you clown😂 you still use these grades for uni entrances and jobs care more about your uni than your A levels. Stop undermining A levels now that people have done well. All people like you do is complain or be jealous.
Turns out the pandemic actually was a good thing for every child in this country as they've been given a free pass into the audult world while those of us who had to work hard for our grades have our achievements devalued :)
Oh stop crying trying to make urself the victim already How can ur grades be devalued dummy, ur D in maths is still a D
Work hard for your grades? Some might I certainly didn't. I showed up and messed around and did no revision and passed everything because I'm not stupid. If I had really tried I would have been A and A* in everything.
@@gravemind6536 same
Didn't they inflate the grades because of that algorithm they ran a few years ago that put everybody down super hard? These grades mean practically nothing, unfortunately.
“A few years ago” out of touch much 🙄
They mean nothing? Are you stupid? This is how people are getting into university.
@@rilasolo113 my perception of time is warped due to working from home lol it was last year, but I did have to check.
@@zaorth7851 they're inflated grades, which overall beings their worth down. Everybody has inflated grades, meaning they're worth very little.
@@K0msur it’s fine lol I was just in a bad mood
We could also take a moment to appreciate and respect the commitment and resilience the students have shown to be able to make it through 3 lockdowns.
Most of us actually did sit exams, they were just used alongside the work we did over our time at college. They were worked hard for, and are undoubtedly deserved.
@UCFlcSjD2I55yq8uxGXf0oPA them being teqcher assessed grades, as opposed to exams, is honestly a better way of assessing students - there's no reason our intelligence should be measured solely on a set of tests at the end of the year.
There is also an upward trend in the number of top grades going, supporting the grades that have been given
@@sallyb9613 and if that's the case, the system will kick in and we'll all do poorly at university, which will force them to crack down on admissions, making getting top grades higher. The percentages rarely stay the same and this years students don't need other generations belittling their achievements :)
@@sallyb9613 You also have to look at the inflation by Private/State schools. 71% of all Private school student achieved at least on A/A*
@@sallyb9613 proving overall that the system still works.
My point isn't that the grades aren't inflated, or that the teacher assessed grades system works well. It's that I don't think its fair for everyone who hasn't been through 'exams' during covid to belittle the students and tale away from what are genuine achievements (whether or not those achievements are st the correct grade)
The students worked hard, often times harder than they would've worked in a normal year, having to learn more independently with little/no guidance on how to do that. The fact we've arrived at a point where we're happy and have results at all is incredible and shouldn't be overlooked
@@phillipcoleman9222 That's the point.... there's students going to Uni's when they probably will just drop out because their grades don't reflect what they actually should have got! Wasting people's money and time and deceiving them by telling them that they're something that they're not.
If more than half of people get top grades that means top grades are now normal and therefore not top grades, how do we know who is a standout performer from these grades?
ARE UNIVERSITIES GOING TO DUMB DOWN THEIR COURSES TOO. They will make a lot of money because they will fill all their expensive ones. Pity potential employers !!!!!
Yeah cos theyre not real grades, these kids feel great right now, 2/3 years down the line theyll be up the creek. These kids will be struggling because they haven't actually hit the targets.this is ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous.
Who gives a toss about A-levels when you've got a degree by that point
You’re probably 40 years old and you’re upset about students doing getting good grades so now you have to act as if they don’t mean anything?😂
I'm dyspraxic and received no help during my A-Levels. No wonder I got an E. They were like forget about the kids with learning difficulties, can't be bothered to deal with students who don't fit the linear learning style of teaching.
That is just so wrong. Whichever school you went too, it must be horrid purely because of this. Discriminating agasint students with medical impairments is just sick. Don't feel down, these qualifications have become worthless today anyway😂👍
@@baguette_connoisseur Thank you that’s so nice of you. 😄 I actually had my extra time, that carried me through my GCSEs, revoked for no reason. I begged them to give it me back as I struggled to finish many of my mocks as a result. Let’s just say it was stressful. 😅
@@ciaran4135I can imagine! Well done you. Unlike them, you were actually determined💪👍
@@baguette_connoisseur Thank you!! 😁😁
Be prepared for the never before seen levels of entitlement.
I remember when I did my A levels around 7 years ago my physics teacher predicted me to get an A at the end of the year and I ended up getting an E. At the time I felt like I worked really hard but at the end of the year after doing the summer exams it really showed that I didn’t understand anything at all and I was so far off getting an A… my older brother did A level physics the year before me and ended up getting an A and I had the same teacher and so I believe the predicted grade was based off my GCSE grade (I achieved an A* in GCSE) and the fact that my older brother did very well in the subject too… predicted grades is one thing but actually getting the grade is another
We ended up sitting unseen exams in exam conditions, if you were that far of your target it would have been found and teachers would not have been able to provide any evidence, This years inflation was a problem, but it only really bumped up the B students to As and Cs to Bs peoples results were not far off what they got.
Working very hard and not achieving, whilst knowing someone who didn't work as hard but achieved, is a very common occurrence. In the UK, fortunately, there are many ways to achieve your goal.........eventually.
Im in this years group of A level students. Got the grades I hoped for but yeah with one of them I know it was inflated without a doubt. Its a shame really cause I was good at the subjects I want to go into and because of this years national results my age group will be seen as having untrustworthy qualifications. Bloody glad im going to uni to get a degree cause maybe at least that will hold some actual value in job interviews.
you sound like a good person, here's good advice, like 70% of people get either a 1st or 2:1 in uni so uni grades means nothing. Join a relevant society to your course, and do some project relevant to your course in your spare time. I do mechanical engineering at uni, joined robotics society and I programme and do some CAD projects in my spare time. Good Luck
As the other comment said - experience means more than ever now due to these ridiculously hyperinflated grades. Anyone can get a 1st or a 2.1 now, so you really, really need personal development and experience to set you apart from that group.
It's a massive, massive failure from the government to think that such a high proportion of the population can just be given these grades.
University is an even bigger scam! And worse of all you pay for it. Wait until you see a lass from Indonesia who cannot speak the language or write get a 1st in a dissertation because she payed £20k extra than you as a "foreign student".
They'll be wiped out by online courses in the coming years the writing is on the wall google is already creating courses in IT development subjects.
Trick young people into thinking that everything’s ok.. as if grades meant anything anyway
Our countrys remain a ticking time bomb! A piece of paper won't be much good when it goes off
And the absolute state of your picture.. Ew
@@AwRighttttt was just about to agree with you until I saw your racism🤢
People are so stupid, the grades were inflated since we were given the tests in their entirety, and since we had a YEAR off, and then an additional 4 months, we needed that boost to cover the loss content. I worked extremely hard for ALL of my grades, listening to a bunch of boomers try take that away from me and my year group is ridiculous. Get a grip.
They're all unsatisfied with their own lives and the fact they failed their A levels so now they come here to complain and pretend they should have gotten higher.
They ignore the fact that the majority of students didn't get a single A, and the 44% who did also includes those who only got 1 A, those who got 2 and those who got 3. If you got 2 or 3 you most likely deserved them and should be proud.
And the IQ of the country drops a few more points..
Actually the IQ of the country has consistently gone up every generation. It's the older generations that I'm worried about.
@@B.D.E. at least older generations still posessed respectable attention spans. They also weren't confused about which bathrooms to use.
@@ackers5861 I see. Boomer
@@NxeonStr1ke Because in the 21st century everyone can cheat by easily getting help and answers online. No real intelligence or critical thinking, just copy paste. At least in a class room this is harder to do, but at home everyone can and _will_ cheat so we suddenly see this dramatic jump in grades. Generation of pampered sheep.
@@joyalshaji1381 Younger brains are always better at handling abstract concepts. A real comparison would be young people 100 years ago vs young people today
If they took the exams from a few years ago, without adjusted grade boundaries. This would be a different story. Pathetic.
Why are you upset over people getting good grades?
You clearly don't understand what happened. There were no grade boundaries.
@@HazePC Which is why these qualifications should at least be classed as something else, I took a levels 3 years ago and tried my ass off for each and every exam, often having multiple exams on the same day, these guys just do what every other generation did before them minus exams and get rewarded participation trophies in the form of straight As?
@@Tom-iv6kh This is not true, the real problem is the lack of uniformity in what the schools and colleges are doing, many schools did make their students sit exams as normal, many of those students also had multiple exams on 1 day just like you Tom, but the problem comes from the few schools that didn't do this, and gave their students higher grades than they deserved, devaluing everyone else's grades that they worked for.
@@Tom-iv6kh it's very exaggerated on the news. It's not like the majority got straight As..
"A whopping 45% of grades were at A* and A this year, sky-rocketing from the 25% registered when exams were last held in 2019"
So almost half of Britain is ready to attend Oxford or Cambridge or start medical degrees? I'm pretty only around 2% of the population is capable of such achievement. So why don't exam results reflect that? Why has Britain become such a joke?
Congratulations you qualified for a job at McDonald's.
Macy's kenetic engineering receiving association......
Another load of youngsters have been conned.
What do you mean
Not fair that the next year has to compete with a generation of people who have been gifted their grades. Absolute joke.
@miss mysterious I’m at uni I’m my final year. My course is only coursework, so I can’t cheat. However, I’m competing with a generation of cheaters who take exams in their bedroom whilst being given the exam paper a week in advance to study. They take the exam with google open and can get the correct answers to any questions they have. It’s a joke.
It's going to be a lot more difficult for people to get into English universities within the next few years.
Why?
@@unicorntomboy9736 because more and more students are going to university annually and universities are already struggling with capacity. Now that almost half of all students get the top grade, they will all be able to go into their first choice university which will put event more pressure on universities. They will likely introduce their own entrance exams in order to filter out students thus making it harder to get in.
@@ProexProduction It's a temporary blip. It won't be like that forever
@@unicorntomboy9736 seriously... why are people freaking out. this comment section is filled with pseudo intellectuals
I'm a software engineer. I did not go to uni, my grades weren't great even though I am smart and I've never shown them to an employer. I am in my 20s and make 45k. I have no debt. I've just started my own business. I can't say the same for many graduates I know, even in the same field as me. Grades have been pretty worthless for a long time for many people
In your career so far, you've never been asked for your grades? Did you have a solid portfolio?
There is one issue: Luck. Your might have simply been lucky, whereas exceptional grades tend to reduce the dependency on luck.
If you go to a good uni, get in-depth knowledge and specialize in an informatics field you can make way more than 45k in that field. Your salary is pretty low to what it could be and University definitely gives you that boost towards that goal if you go to a top institution.
I am specializing now and hoping to get into a grad position that pays 80k-120k per year at the end of it.
Another surge! Trust the experts and the data. Wear a mask and keep smiling.
Yeah I’d be laughing hysterically too, knowing I did sweet F.A. And still got all pass grades.😆 funny that.
Ye because you understand how it works don't u. We had to take the exams. In many peoples cases more than normal. They took into account exams we did that we didn't even know were gonna make up our final grade when we did them. Yes, they were marked by teachers and I do agree its silly when different schools are gonna give higher grades than others. But at the end of the day what was meant to happen? Covid meant huge chunks of learning was missed there was no obvious way around this so show a bit of sympathy
You're saying we've done nothing AT ALL, yet I had to sit twenty-seven weighted exams in the space of 2 months, revising for these while being poorly taught the content and expected to cope with a complete lack of support. I agree, the grade inflation is a joke, but don't take it on us students, we've worked harder than most years and we'll be the victims of employers with the same mindset as you who can't see past media misinformation and are unwilling to accept reality.
It looks good for the future. All these highly intelligent students will be making country rich. I assume next year to get into university students will need A+++++++
Congratulations, now you get to put your self into life long debt for a job that pays nothing. Well done guys, you are so clever
as someone whos just finished going through the university system my opinion is that literally all universities are near broke at the moment and running on no money so they NEED more people to go to university, and the government want more kids paying loans for most of their career. Its all to do with money. Big congratulations to all this kids and your results though
Worthless pieces of paper. Exams were scrapped. This is just what teachers handed out
Thats a lie, we all did exams. Don't act like you have a clue what you're talking about.
Jesus Christ died for sinners including you, on the cross with his own blood for your personal sins, repent and get saved or perish with the lost wicked world. God's word is coming to pass, it will only go downhill
Amen
@@PapaSeed And Awomen
God never said that.
Pretty sure Jesus died on The Walking Dead. I saw the episode. 😆
@@NotSure1313 Amen means "So be it" in Hebrew
Yeah well done you all got given the same grades that will be pointless when you say what year you got them, great work government 👍🏻
Dunno about anyone else, but throughout my 30 year working life as a Manager and Director, I've used my A' Levels exactly once ... and that was to get the interview.
How can nearly half of all A-Levels be at an A or A* level. It’s a total farce and embarrassing. It doesn’t make sense to give out these kinds of grades it totally devalues the grading system. Not everyone is supposed to get the grades to be able to go to a top 5 university.
It is sad, it makes those who actually tried and put in the effort look like they don't deserve their grades. I did so much revision and preperation for my mini assessments while I know people who did nothing and cheated, and to know my grade is worth the same as theirs is completely unfair.
That's not true. Half of students got at least 1 A or A*
When I graduated from Uni fewer than 5% of those graduating gained a First Class Degree! I believe now it's close to 45%!!
Everyone gets found out eventually! Doesn’t matter what A levels you get! I went to uni as a mature student at 30 and am a mechanical engineer with my own business now! It was bloody hard after no school for 15 years and I had to beg and plead to get in as I didn’t have the grades from back in 1995. All being said I had the second highest overall mark out of the 180 engineering students across all disciplines. And a lot of those recently left school kids all got straight in with all their A’s
So what I am saying is.. you can have the system cheat for you until you meet the reality of the workplace and then the ‘real’ hard workers will do well. The ones who had inflated results and aren’t really that bright but got all A’s won’t! Hard work beats any grade!
It doesn’t help the kids either as it gives them a false sense of themselves!
At my Grammar school only 2% got all A’s in 1995. And it was a top 10 grammar school at the time!
We iz really smartz m8.
@@eventhori3on I totally agree. It's utterly ridiculous when you've got to teach a 20+ year old how to spell and construct a meaningful sentence.
@@AlanWattResistance I hope that s sarcasm
@@AlanWattResistance A* for spelling! Only joshing, a Z- would be more apt!! P.S. Z is the twenty-sixth (26th) letter of the English alphabet.
I wish I'd had a chance to do my A levels this year.
Imagine doing no A-level exams whatsoever and celebrating like they achieved something... When I did mine I studied to the point I didn't know what sleep was.
I was made to sit twenty-seven weighted exams in the space of a couple months with poor teaching delivery and hardly any support after being told there will be no exams, which was the determing contributor to my grade. I have had many sleepless nights, a lack of mental health support, and the only difference to the real exams was that they weren't all the same at all schools. Don't believe everything you see in the media, especially the Sun
LOL!!!Exactly, it meant something then. Now, you just need to cut & paste from the internet or be liked by your teacher. A+ son! But sir, Robert has A++, right you are A+++.
Lol, it still means something and hasn’t lost it’s meaning in the slightest. They are still used for the exact same reason they’ve been used for many years now. TO GET INTO A GOOD UNI.
Is having to forfiet you're health really a good thing? and really without having to focus on grades we might be able to help nupgrade the nschool nsystem that hasnt changed since the industrial revolution?
The ends matter more than the means
This is awful news. I’m not saying these students don’t deserve the marks they got but an inflation in marks like this just punishes the smarter students and it’s going to make it a lot more difficult for universities to choose who they want to based on grades
If kids are getting better grades since we had covid restrictions, then why not stop teaching them altogether & then they will all become a genius overnight. Step aside Einstein.
This makes sense why none of the universities offered me place after meeting the entry requirements and passing the interviews. Work hard = useless
Its more than just hard work and good grades its about extra stuff and enthusiasm as well
And the amount of people failing uni will continue to increase
We are only a few generations away from people watering plants with brawndo.
It's got electrolytes.
This is kind of upsetting to see, we nearly had to take our o levels amidst horrible covid rates but after countless petitions and requests from a group of over 4k students from my country, they cancelled o levels. However I had to take 3 sets of mock exams which each test was timed like the original exams (i had 8 subjects) after 3 months of exams and the entire year of preparation, I'll probably still fall behind UK grades due to the obvious inflation. My grades come out in a day, I'm terrified ahhahah
But at least your grades mean something.
Lol i dropped out in year 12 i run 3 e-commerce businesses and earning more than any of these students will get in a lifetime. School is not the only way to be "successful"
No one actually believes this. I feel sorry for the youngsters who have been tricked into believing they have As. I feel even worried for the youngsters who would have got As in an exam because their result has been devalued.
Let’s be honest the grades are obviously really inflated expect to see more people dropping out or leaving with lesser qualifications at university because of this.
Drop out rates have increased every year for the last four years. No surprise.
@@paulmccloud9395 exactly we will have to wait a few years to find out more people were ill prepared for more difficult courses and universities.
So all those who are ment to get U in there exams, got and A 🌟!!
So be ready for future everyone, all dumb engineers, doctors etc... what you get in gcse? A 🌟! When he can't read or write!
Gcses wont get you into any of those jobs. All of those jobs require a levels at high grades. So don’t be so stupid
@@Djnffnoeosmfasjjd you fool, in short they will get into uni , do other courses which is out of there league, I think your one of them, that's why you're burning 🔥😉
As someone who graduated in 2020, this is a joke! Our year really got the short end of the stick with a system they whipped up in 2 weeks, and nearly everyone in my year got much lower grades than we were expecting, including me. This year, they seem to have gone to the other extreme...
No you didn't. Your year got higher than expected results given COMPLETELY free. Yes, you didn't have to do a single assessment because there simply wasn't time. People this year had many exams still and had to work hard if they wanted to secure more than 1 A.
@@user-wm1zg1dh8f I got all A*s in iGCSEs and predicted 2A*s 1A for A-Levels. I got A* A B and was rejected from my first choice uni for an exam I didn't even take. The story was similar for many of my classmates who either had to settle for clearing or retake the exam in October. We had no appeal process or any sort of assessment to prove this was the grade we deserved. Tell me again how this year had it worse, with a full on system around grading and assessments beforehand? The fact they actually KNEW what was very probably going to happen to them from the beginning of the year gives them a huge advantage in and of itself.
@@saamjourabchi5356 We were told what was happening at the end of January. Giving us 2 months to revise for a number of mini exams across all three subjects.
Your year was more out of your hands, however you didn't have to do any work to prove your grades, if you performed well during the year you got predicted higher but if you didn't you got worse grades. In a way that system is more fair as no one knew you would go into lockdown and so those who didn't plan on caring about exams right until the end got bad results and those who tried in every test got better result.s
Also how did you not get into university with those grades? If that is the case I think that's more of an issue with the uni rather than how pupils were graded.
We all knew this would happen - if grades were given out that were reflective of ability there would have been a revolution
A revolution? This is a generation of armchair activists, they'd complain on Twitter instead
Big sigh. I've been achieving As and A*s since the beginning of Y12 because I worked so goddamn hard for them, even until my last internal summer exam in Y13. Now that I've received top grades, people are going to think that they've been inflated (which I admit they have been a little bit) and that they don't mean anything.
yeah I'm sure you're right. But obviously there is a problem when you compare even 2019 to 2020 and 2021. The BBC show how for about a decade from 2010-19, A* and A results were pretty much the same and then a sudden rise in 2020 and 2021. There will be many students that just aren't as clever as their results would indicate
@@andypandy4607 Yeah, I totally understand. I know a few people at my school who got three As even though they had been getting Bs and Cs all year round. It just sucks that it feels like all my hard work is now invalid.
How can I buy shares in the Student Loans Company? Looks like boom times ahead.
As a student, its been so hard the past year or so keeping up with school, especially online. These grades aren't inflated, more like a reflection of dedication and hard work shown by students.
But these increased grades are at the expense of the top achievers. Theres no longer anything to distinguish them from the average bunch.
@@backyardengineering816 but who’s to say that if given the proper opportunity, many of these wouldn’t have just achieved the same grade? The curriculum was altered because of covid to marry up with the time lost, so this is a reflection of genuine work
Just because a student works hard, doesnt mean they should automatically get high grades.
The whole grading system is designed to test competence in the subject, not just "who can work the hardest"
I know u say this is ur hard work but remember u guys course is exams and your grade has been reflected on a mock and you guys may be accused in the future of having the teachers on ur side becoz they gave you the top grade.
At this point vocational courses such as btec will have the upper hand becoz they were never given predicted grades, we spent all the time during lockdown sending work back and forth to teachers. And even when it did come slight last minute decisions by our exam board it was to give us a predicted on two units we could not finish and even then we still had to do more than half the work in the units.
So many new recruits for McDonald's
Well done 😁😆😅😄😃🤣
I know for a fact, students got mock grades as final grades or D students were getting B's. Universities should be weary of these inflated grades. Frankly, I would not complain if i were a student now.
Universities probably ain’t bothered, but alll this is part of it
Just wait until Universities introduce the upcoming entrance exams, then we will see many illusions of intelligence crushed.
How amazing. Stop educating kids and their exams improve! Defund schools to improve exam results! These young people objected to an objective measure put in place by the government. The government capitulated immediately and let teachers decide. Now everyone has won and all shall have prizes. The tragedy is that employers will make allowances for covid kids and automatically devalue their grades. It says 'A' but is really a 'C'. The certificate is almost worthless. So the truly exceptional kid is demoted to an average kid. Pah.
Grades are a nonsense to me in some respects. One of my mates is as bright as a star, he's got so many GCSE's, 5 A Levels, and a university 2:1 degree. He's the most lazy person you'll ever meet, 5 years after leaving university he's still not got a job, and in that time he's had 2 job interviews, which in his own words he didn't try very hard in and wasn't overly keen on. He's got no common sense whatsoever and has relied on his mum and dad buying him expensive gifts all his life as he is an only child, and giving him weekly pocket money for doing nothing.
I didn't do massively well in school, 14 GCSE's, 2 A levels (at a low grade), no degree. I worked in various different jobs over the years, and began working part time aged 14, then full time from 18, but now work in the emergency services for well over average UK salary.
The way people harp on about grades, and the way in which my sixth form tutors pressured me into going to uni and being another "number" for the school really does make me wonder sometimes. I'm so glad I didn't.
i know what you mean! my sister is very good at school but in real life she’s very very stupid and childish, i was very bad at school and i dropped out of middle school! but i’m very smart about life problems and i’m more mature than her even tho she’s older, and i’m actually the smartest person in my family and i have the best mindset and i’m the most mature, school has nothing to do with being smart
I agree to I did ok at school with A-C. Collage then spent to years getting outdoor NGBS including work experience with thaf and I have worked two jobs to pay for it. I think the issue is alot of people think that grades is all you need but its simply not true. You need work experience as well as drive and enthusiasm to learn anything and everything as well as having the piece of paper to say you have done that grade. It all roles into one its Why when an interviewer asks "what do you like doing in your spare time?" Saying shopping of video games isn't going to cut it even if you have the dagree on the paper. When getting my dagree they didn't even ask about my Level 3 BTEC award because they knew I was ready for it. Same with jobs that I have worked in
4 A grades used to open doors when I was a kid. Now they're 10 a penny.
Remind me in 10 years time to NEVER have a GP who sat their A-levels in 2021.
Probably majored in carpentry.
Imagine feeling proud about being handed an A* for nothing. Participation trophy for everyone
I certainly wouldn't be proud of having what 45% of people have.
Well I'd be proud of doing well in mocks
god I would hate standing around comparing I would just collect them and drive home. I dont want to be compared to others, just myself
Yeah I never compare myself to other people, always try and go at my own pace. As you should 👏🏼
I got distinctions!!!!!!! I’m super happy
I fear for the kind of society youngsters will be growing up in.It’s getting more Orwellian every day.
Why do you think they're all voting Green?
If older generations would stop voting Conservatives, things might actually change.
Also, Orwell was a libertarian socialist. The Greens are libertarian socialists. Just thought I should mention that.
@@mr.mintman7545 I didn’t know anyone voted green tbh. Everyone I know pretty much voted Lib Dem’s. But yeah hardly that many voted Tory that I’m aware of that’s true
Let er burn let er burn lad
@@mr.mintman7545
I get it but people are individuals not a cog in a machine.
Are they all voting Green? Hmmmmm…..
PS. What Orwell wrote is surely more important that ‘what he was’.
@@tarquin2trappybro Lib Dems are certainly rising in popularity. It's just a trend towards libertarianism in general
The difficulty of this situation is that assessments are considerably easier as they have been based online. As someone who is currently studying at University, all of my assessments were much easier to do under these conditions, and a considerable number of students have said that they prefer the format over the previous exam structure. But, now knowing that more students would be getting top grades if exams were ditched, reintroducing the previous structure will deliberately lower students' grade attainment. Now, the question is, does the government keep this structure knowing that students will perform better, but will lead to grade inflation, or do they deliberately cap students' potential by bringing the old way back? It is a difficult position to be in because really no one's going to be happy either way.
You know your assessments aren't actually meant to be easy. Exams reflect real life - stress, pressure, deadlines, etc. The purpose of education is to prepare you for that life, if it's not doing that then your education is not good no matter what results you are given.
Well the new system is worthless so probably best to go back. Welcome to education where the courses are made up and the grades don't matter.
@@NamesAreRandom Yeah it's true, assessments shouldn't be easy. It's a good point. It's more that now you have shown that it's the system that decides the grades more so than students' intelligence or work ethic, what we are seeing is that students who get top grades simply operate better within the system given. Similar to designing an IQ test, if you were to design a good IQ test, you don't make it deliberately more difficult because that makes the results unreliable, just as you don't make all the IQ questions easy. You make them neutral. Now you've moved out of that system, do you put it back knowing that doing so deliberately tampers with students' results? Are students not going to feel unfairly treated? It's an issue of the government and not really the students.
If everybody is a 'somebody' then nobody is anybody!
Damn that's cool cause not everyone got As and A*s
Very poor since this will just set back the people that did it less than 1 or 2 years ago, UK = Joke
None of these brilliant creative minds found ways to cheat .. hard work pays
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But that should be impossible. Aren't Grade bounderies set in a manner so that only a certain percentage of students can get the best grades? Otherwise the grades are devalued.
No, if that were the case the %s of students achieving each grade every year would be constant, i.e. only the top 10% get A's etc. That would be a much fairer system and it would make education work much harder. In the current system every student can get a grade A in theory and it looks like unless education is drastically reformed that is where we are heading. Because until everyone wakes up to the fact that the current system is corrupt, no government would dare change the system if it meant reducing the number of students getting grade As. The media would slaughter them.
It's because the boundaries were set by teachers. Honestly I think they should've never 'cancelled' exams and instead modified them to make certain questions optional to deal with the fact that not everyone managed to finish covering all the content. This is all the result of poor government handling
It sucks for them, my life was mostly normal until my kids were at early years in school, this year has sucked for the 10-20s age range mostly, all those mistakes i was able to make at that age and learn from, these kids are missing out on so much, Keep calm and carry on I guess.
still seems like first world problems when we think of the generations of the world wars
@@andypandy4607 just because people suffered greater than us in the past doesnt mean our hardships should be written off. At this point the 2nd world war is leaving living memory anyway
@@lucasc5622 No that is true. But my point was we must keep things in perspective and remember things aren't that bad
@@andypandy4607 actually for your original comment i was going to add to my original comment i remember my grandma being a part of the land army and talking about her struggles during the war (she was 13 at the time) actually the struggles were very similar, whilst in the adult world they were big things as a younger child they just did what they needed to do, repercussions come later.
@@andypandy4607 yeah that was bad but let’s not write off certain peoples struggles because others have faced subjectively bigger struggles in the past…
In the past the reason for inflating grades were they got so well educated they deserved it. This time they got incredibly badly educated and they inflated the grades even more. Worse the teachers simply can't award accurately - studies showed they will award higher those they get on with and those they feel sorry for. So a lot of students will have got lower grades vs their classmates then they would have in a proper exam situation. The result devalues the whole education system.
going to be difficult for employers to find the REALLYy suitable candidates for employment in a lot of jobs !!!
Which is why apprenticeships will be extremely valuable imo.
Bruh I got a 2 in maths and I don’t think they acknowledged me doing all my teams and having COVID
What about English and other subjects
Just think with these amazing grades they also will be getting a 10k bonus for not attending UNI this year.
This and last year's are completely worthless and will never be taken seriously
Who would have thought this would happen when they ditched the actual exams to judge what grade they should get? Why aren't more people working or doing trade apprenticeships anyway instead of these useless A levels?
cause some people want to be doctors, lawyers, scientists, mathematicians, psychologists, physicists....cant exactly work your way up to being a doctor.
@@dann_playsow5811 yes, the old classic professionals who comply with the conventional consumerist, depressing matrix which has been set up for them who are completely going against human nature just because the ones in control want them to.
There’s no way this could cause mass imposter syndrome among youths in the near future
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