Members of the all-party Assembly Education Committee are concerned that pupils in the North’s schools may lose out due to changes in England.
Those starting their English and maths GCSE courses this year will receive numerical instead of alphabetical grades.
The North’s education minister John O’Dowd is yet to decide whether to change the country’s A* to G GCSE grading system to the new nine-point scale.
Many pupils sit papers offered by boards in England on top of those they sit with the North’s Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment.
This means they will receive two different types of scores in future, unless Northern Ireland replicates the changes being made elsewhere.
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