On Thursday 25th February, OFQUAL and the DfE released their guidance on how students will receive their grades this summer. The key principles of this guidance are:

• Students will receive teacher assessed grades for each of the subjects in which they have been entered
• The teacher assessed grades will be based on evidence to show the level the student is currently working at and will not be an estimate of what the student would have achieved
• Schools should consider a range of evidence to come to these teacher assessed grades – this can be from work already completed, such as coursework (NEA), assessments and substantial class or homework that reflects the type of task usually seen from the exam board
• Most importantly, the guidance is clear that this evidence should include work yet to be completed. The guidance states, and we agree, that the more recently the evidence was produced, the more likely it is represent the accurate level of student performance
• The exam boards will be providing appropriate model assessment materials to support in the gathering of this range of evidence in due course – we expect these to be available by Easter
• An extensive internal and external moderation process will be undertaken to ensure that marking and teacher assessment is accurate
• The date for the submission of results is 18th June 2021 – no assessing or gathering of evidence can occur after this date

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The A Level results day is 10^th August 2021

The AS Level results day is 10^th August 2021

The GCSE results day is 12th August 2021

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Read the full letters here