| Comment | The entire grading system from universities relies on the analytics behind the grades, i.e. how many people get an A for a subject, B for a subject. These pass marks are generally consistent year on year but tend to rise slightly.
Last year, because teachers decided grades and not examiners, the grade levels were unlike anything before, with passes and As etc. at an all time high. That meant that the universities grading system didn't work and so you got stories of people with five As still missing out on courses because there were more people applying with five As than ever before. Now you've got all those people who didn't get it but got the "grades" competing with people this year and so it's destroyed the whole system and led to many people getting into uni who don't deserve it and others missing out who do.
It's a bit like economics and the Government. The Government can give you money but money doesn't buy stuff, buying power does, and no matter how much money they print they can only erode buying power. Same with teachers, they can give high grades all they want but they can't get people into the higher percentiles of students which is what universities actually use to judge ability. |
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