Something went badly wrong with last summer’s English GCSE results, and many C grade students were awarded D grades that they did not deserve.
There was tremendous pressure on schools in 2012 to improve results, from both Ofsted’s new framework for inspection and from the DfE’s demand that at least 40 per cent of students in every school gain five A* to C grades including English and maths.
Schools responded by working even harder with students on the C/D borderline, with more teacher time spent with this group, greater support, more encouragement and extra revision sessions to help them reach their potential. Schools were at the very limit of the support they could give to this group.
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