4th January 2012 9:00
By Blue Tutors
Students who received lower English grades than expected this summer have now received their retake results. Over a third of the students achieved one grade higher than in their summer exams. Many of the students originally received D grades instead of their predicted Cs after grade boundaries were moved between January and summer exams. Ofqual refused to re-grade the papers, and instead students were offer resits this November.
A record number of students took resits, with nearly 50,000 pupils retaking their GCSE English exams after the row over the shift in grade boundaries this summer. Schools, students and local councils have begun legal proceedings over the awarding of grades in the summer, after the grade boundaries were moved and students were refused remarks.
Whilst a third of students achieve a grade higher than in their summer exams, teachers have said that the results reflect continuing problems with the exam system. Concerns have been expressed that the large number of students achieving higher grades just weeks later reflects that the summer grades were awarded erroneously.