Exam Dates

Awarding examination grades for Summer 2020:  Update 21/4/2020 from Mr Evans

An announcement was made on Friday 3 April about how GCSE and A-Level grades are to be awarded.  Teachers are to submit the grade that they believe each student would have achieved had they sat their GCSE or A-Level examination, based on a range of evidence including work completed throughout the course and the results of assessments, tests and mock exams.  These grades are then moderated by the Curriculum Leader or an experienced teacher for the subject to check that they are fair for all classes taking the subject.  Senior staff, including myself as Headteacher, will check that the processes that have been followed across all subjects to make sure that they are as fair and thorough as possible.  The teachers will then place the students in a rank order for their subject.  For example if there are 20 students who have been given grade 6 in maths, the maths teachers would need to rank the students from 1 to 20.  Our teachers are putting in place thorough procedures to make sure this process is done as fairly and accurately as possible.  Once this has been completed and the processes used have been checked by myself and senior staff, grades will be submitted to the exam boards.  Exam boards will then check the overall grades the school has awarded using a range of statistical measures, and  decide whether and how to adjust the grades moving them up or down depending on whether they feel we have been too generous or too strict in each subject.  

We have been instructed by the exam boards and the government that we must not discuss the grades teachers are recommending or the rank order with any parent or any student, so it is very important that students and parents do not ask teachers questions about the grades they are recommending or the rank order.  I can however assure parents that the process being followed in all subjects at JMHS is extremely thorough with all teachers working hard to ensure grades and the rank order are fair and accurate.

We have been informed that students or parents will be able to lodge an appeal if they feel that the school or exam board have not followed processes correctly.  We have also been informed that students may retake exams where they are dissatisfied with grades in September.

The procedures for awarding grades for vocational subjects have not yet been published.

It has now been confirmed that A-Level results will be issued on Thursday 13 August and GCSE results on Thursday 20 August.  We will let you know nearer the time how these results will be distributed to students.

Exam Results Days

Further exam information, including timetables, can be found here