Schools don’t need another “big assessment experiment”, Ofqual’s chief regulator has said as she justifies the move back to pre-pandemic grading in summer 2023.
However the regulator and ministers announced today that while grades will return to 2019 levels, there will be similar “protections” to those used in 2017 to ensure the first cohorts taking reform exams were not disadvantaged.
Ofqual said this would mean a typical student who would have achieved an A before the pandemic will be just as likely to achieve an A next summer, even if their performance is “a little weaker” than pre-Covid.
