Children taking exams should be marked up because of strikes by teachers, it was claimed

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Undated file photo of students sitting an exam. Hundreds of thousands of students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will receive their A-level and GCSE results this week after exams were cancelled for the second year in a row due to the pandemic. Issue date: Tuesday August 10, 2021. PA Photo. Students will be given grades determined by teachers, rather than exams, with pupils only assessed on what they have been taught during the pandemic. See PA story EDUCATION Exams . Photo credit should read: Niall Carson/PA Wire

CHILDREN taking exams this summer should be marked up because of strikes by teachers, it was claimed yesterday.

Exams watchdog Ofqual is being urged to rethink its instruction to exam boards to return to “normal marking” for the first time since 2019.

Kids taking exams this summer should be marked up, it was claimed yesterday

The Northern Powerhouse Partnership said teens sitting A-levels and GCSEs were being treated “very unfairly”.

It comes after marks were increased in 2021 and 2022 to compensate for Covid disruption.

There were no exams in 2020.

Teachers will strike on April 27, May 2 and for three days in June or July.

Ofqual said: “We’re building in an allowance to grading that reflects the disruption students have experienced.”

He told the Sunday Times: “Not only did this year’s exam candidates lose lessons in the pandemic, many teenagers have not returned to school full time and behaviour in schools is much worse than it was.”

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