School to take GCSE legal action

11:00am Friday 2nd November 2012 in News

School to take GCSE legal action School to take GCSE legal action

ST Gregory’s High School is taking legal action against the marking of GCSE English exam papers.

Warrington Borough Council confirmed the move yesterday.

It said that the school on Cromwell Avenue, Westbrook has launched legal action against the AQA and Edexel exam boards, and regulator Ofqual.

The claim relates to the decision to change grade boundaries during June’s English GCSE exam.

It meant that candidates needed to get more marks to attain a C grade, an important qualification for future opportunities.

St Gregory’s High School and the council are part of 150 schools, 42 English councils, six professional bodies and 167 pupils taking legal action.

They claim that around 10,000 pupils missed out on a C grade with marks that would have merited one months earlier.

Papers have now been served to the High Court.

Comments(1)

Hawaii says...
1:32am Tue 6 Nov 12

Although I agree with the legal action taken by St Gregory's school, I wish that my school had taken similar action when I took my Engish Language & Literature GCE O-Level in 1966, with the Joint Matriculation Board of the Northern Universities, (known as the JMB). That summer the Pass Level was raised (as I suspect often happenned with all exam boards over many years. I failed both Engish exams, awarded a grade 7 (grades 1-6 were passes). That year no pupil who passed in my school had a grade lower than 3, the same pass grades I achieved in both subjects, when I re-took the exams that November. In those days it was acknowledged that the exam boards would only allow a certain percentage of pupils to achieve pass grades. If the achievement level was higher than usual, the percentage of passes awarded had to remain the same, so that the usual lowest pass mark of 45% was raised to accomadte this.

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