This year’s grading approach did not “disadvantage any student,” Ofqual’s chief regulator has insisted.
Today’s GCSE’s results marked the end of a two-year plan to return to pre-pandemic grading, after inflated results when teacher grades were awarded in 2020 and 2021 due to Covid.
The exams regulator built in “protection” to recognise the pandemic disruption, meaning it should be no harder to get a certain grade this year than in 2019.
The proportion of top grades for 16-year-olds in England fell to 22.4 per cent this year – but this is still above the 21.8 per cent in pre-pandemic 2019.
