Michael Gove, the current secretary of state for
education, has announced that in 2017 A Levels will
be changing back to what they were before the year 2000.
They’re scraping the AS level and just
basing your final A level result on a final exam.
The change means that the students for every A level will
have 2 years to revise. The first teenagers
to start the new system will start there course in 2015
and then in 2017, they will take their exam.
These changes will first impact on the existing year ten
pupils.
their final A level Grade. This is one of the reason that
the A level results have improved over the
years.
Are the changes necessary?
Most Universities have been concerned about the academic
ability of the first year students in
subjects such as Maths and English and their views on the
increase of results in A Levels has been
that parents has helped students with their assessments
and course work, which has increased
their level. The resulting grade of theses assessment not
necessarily reflecting on the ability of the
student.
However, some universities, such as Cambridge will be
considering their own entrance exam for
evidence that the student is academic enough to enter
their university because universities usually
rely on AS levels. The new system will take out AS levels
therefore they need different evidence
about the current level of the student.
Does the proposed Change better prepare students for
future employment?
Whilst you are in a working environment commonly, an
employee will have a meeting with their
boss and assess over a period of time how well they’ve
done and what they’ve achieved. The A level
system will now take away the first annual assessment for
the two year course.
Because there will be less exams to revise and prepare
for, could it mean that it will enable the
Students to gain deeper understanding of the subject?
What is the view of a student affected by the Change?
Pupils may be influenced by their own ability. Some
pupils prefer a big three hour exam whereas
others like modular work and tests. The system change may
also affect Males and Females
differently. For example, in 2006, when maths course work
was abolished from GCSE, Boys pulled
ahead of girls in the rankings.
A year 10 student (year 10 students will be first to be
affected by the change) told me ‘
How are parents likely to react?
Some parents will welcome the system with open because it
is back to the A levels as they new
them. The first year of the two year course being a no
pressure, relaxed and a year without exams
after the previous years studying for GCSE’s. But in the
January of the second year there will be
A parent, Matt Dring, has said, ‘I think that my son will
suffer from the A level changes but I will support a standalone AS level
because I think it will enable pupils continue with education’.
However, another parent, Karen Rolfe, who is a parent of
a college student, has said’ In my opinion, students get it to easy these days
and that the government have made a correct decision.’
What are the teachers’ views?
A teacher at the west Bridgford Academy has quoted ‘I
think that the change is not necessary, and it is unfair to base 2 years of
learning into one 3 hour exam. It doesn’t show any understanding that the
students have on the subject.’
However the head of Torch Academy Gateway Trust, which
run Toot Hill School, agrees with the changes telling this is Nottingham, ‘I
Believe that the current picture for learning at A levels is inconsistent. For
students, it feels like they’re taking one exam after an other. That is why I
feel it is better for them to sit their exams at the end of the two years.’
This massive change will affect everyone in education,
all having different views on the change and one that will rumble over the
years.
Jordan
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