Exam Results Day 2020

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This year, Results Day for Year 13 students is Thursday 13 August and the following week, for Year 11 students, on Thursday 20 August.

Results will be emailed to Year 13 students and they will have an opportunity to speak to a member of staff by phone or have a virtual meeting if they require further support with securing a place at university. Please click below to see the letter outlining this. 

For Year 11, results will be available for socially distanced personal collection according to prearranged time slots.  Students would have received by letter in advance of the day.  Please click below to see the letter.

Year 13 Exams Results Day letter 23 July 2020
Year 11 Exams Results Day letter 23 July 2020

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR 2020 RESULTS

As both the A Level & Vocational Qualification and GCSE Results Day approach, we would like to share some key information with you. We want to emphasise that although our students may not have sat formal qualifications, we want them to feel proud of themselves and what they have achieved. You can read more about the changes here.

CENTRE ASSESSED GRADES

The Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) regulates qualifications and exams in England. They  produced the guidelines for schools to generate centre assessment grades and a rank order of students within each of these grades. The grades had to be based on a broad range of evidence, reflect a fair, reasonable and carefully considered judgement of the most likely grade a student would have achieved if they had sat their exams this summer. Please see a video guide for students here and also infographics below which explain the awarding process.  

We are confident that this system was applied fairly and consistently. However, it is important to note that the school has no control over the final grades released in August. These are assigned by the Awarding Bodies and Ofqual, after applying a standardisation process to the CAGs that St Martin’s submitted to the exam boards.

Read further information from Ofqual on this year's GCSEs, AS and A levels. A student guide has been published for those receiving qualification results in England this summer. This guide is to help students and their parents and carers to understand how results have been awarded this year and where to find more information.

Ofqual have also produced a short film and a fact sheet which gives full details about the statistical model used so that students, parents and carers can understand how GCSE, AS and A levels will be standardised this summer.

POST RESULTS SERVICES

In most years some students ask for a review of marking and to appeal against some grades. This year, as no formal examinations have been sat,  students will not be able to challenge the Centre Assessment Grade or the rank order. Grades can only be changed through sitting an examination in individual subjects in October/November (see information below).  Ofqual will only allow for the following:

  • A student will be able to ask the centre (school) to conduct a clerical check to see if the centre made an error when submitting a Centre Assessed Grade.

  • A student will be able to complain to the school if they have evidence of bias or that they were discriminated against.

  • A centre to appeal to an exam board on the grounds that the exam board used the wrong data when calculating grades, and/or incorrectly communicated the grades calculated.

AN OPPORTUNITY TO SIT EXAMS

Ofqual has released information regarding an autumn series of A Level/Vocational Qualifications and GCSEs, should any student who is not satisfied with their grades want to sit the exams. If any student wishes to be entered for any of these exams, the deadline to inform the school is:

Wednesday 26 August 2020, 12:00pm for Year 13 - A Level and Vocational Qualifications 

Monday 7 September 2020, 12:00pm for Year 11 - GCSE

The exams will be held at St Martin’s and the timetable will run as follows:

GCE AS and A level examinations start on Monday 5 October and finish on Friday 23 October 2020

GCSE examinations start on Monday 2 November and finish on Monday 23 November 2020 

Entry to these exams will only be available to students in subjects for which they were entered in the summer season and we will be asking parents/carers to pay a deposit equivalent to the price of each exam if a resit is requested which will be approximately £40.00 per exam. 

Due to the significant amount of learning that has been missed, our best advice to students is to consider whether to sit an exam in the autumn term. This would be without any preparation, alongside having to continue their university studies or new A level /BTEC courses at Post 16. This could lead to further potential disruption and believe that it is important for students to concentrate their efforts fully on their next steps.

Please send all exam requests to our Examinations Officer Ms Mckoy, her email address is cmckoy@stmartins.academy 

RESULTS DAY 

On Results Day, students will receive the following information:

  • A final grade for each subject – as students did not take any written exams and no NEA marks were submitted to any of the boards, they will not receive any unit grades, marks or grade boundaries

  • Details on the process for entering resits for students who are not satisfied with their final grades

  • Information signposting students to Ofqual (and awarding bodies as appropriate) that sets out how their grades were calculated this year and information on access to appeal (as outlined above)

If you have any questions regarding Results Day or any of the information above, please email our Examinations Officer.

On Results Day, Year 11 students will also be able to enrol for St Martin’s 6th Form.

FREE WEBINARS

After Results Day, Young Enterprise invites Year 11 and Year 13 students to join their free Webinars where you will have the chance to hear from two inspirational speakers who’ll share their stories of life after results day and how they came to be where they are today. 

You can book your place on the free webinars for a selection of dates from below by clicking on the link