In clearing we had kids from state schools with straight As predicted BBC. We took then through clearing. Posh kids always got their parents to ring, who screamed at me when I said we wouldn’t take them.
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If you want to make it fair, it has to be based on achieved grades. Interviewing students is overrated, heavily biased, and a proven waste of time. An algorithm can better tell you who to take.
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Warwick didn’t interview kids from deprived neighbourhoods/schools, just accepted them, ditto York. Kids from poor schools perform far better than privately schooled kids with the same grades.
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Anyway, it wasa proper joy telling students with better than anticipated grades they could come to Warwick, but the whole system is currently dysfunctional. Replace it with an algorithm, use attained grades.
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yeah, I didn't understand why my predicted a level grades were so low tbh and it meant I didn't get onto any English degrees.. it totally crushed my confidence. I ended up getting 4 As and coming top in the results at my college but by then the damage was done
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Yep, it’s a properly awful system that stacks the odds against people who already have the odds stacked against them. So sorry that happened, grim stuff.
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Ditto. This is a massively overdue reform.
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This would also stop teachers coming under pressure from parents and A level students to bump up predicted grades so they can get offers from Universities asking for higher grades than initially predicted- as a former teacher I found this was a regular occurrence
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When did this all change? When I went to uni, late 80's, the offer showed the grades I had to get for each subject. Some people were given offers based on attaining a minimum number of points (A=1,...) What was the problem that caused the change / why can't it go back to that?
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Right bang in the middle of this with my 18 year old daughter. Crap predicted grades from her school. Find out tomorrow the reality.
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Fingers crossed!
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