Pandemic-related disruption continued to impact students in the run up to the first national exams since 2019, according to new research published by the Sutton Trust today. Over the past academic year, a third of A-level students who applied to university missed 11 or more days of school for Covid-related reasons, with over 1 in 5 missing more than 20 days.
A Levels and University Access 2022 surveys university applicants and teachers to give a picture of this year’s exams and university admissions cycle.
While some mitigations were put in place for exams this year to reflect ongoing disruption – including giving advance information on topics to be covered in exams -today’s polling of 4,089 teachers finds that almost half thought the measures hadn’t gone far enough. And only 52% of university applicants felt that arrangements for exams fairly took the impact of the pandemic into account.
