Students Frustrated with Exam Changes

The decision to push exams back next summer might not come as a surprise to some, but students across the country are still left worried about their grades and what this means for their future.

After the disastrous outcome of this year’s exam results, the executive decision was made to push next summer’s exams back by three weeks in an attempt to allow students to catch up on all they missed during lockdown. 

When schools initially closed back in March, nobody expected the effects of Covid to still be as dire as they were and now measures are being taken to avoid students missing out on the grades that they would have been predicted if they had continued at school. Having missed so much time at school, many students feel that they are majorly behind and hugely unprepared for the looming exams that they have been working towards for years. 

However, despite this change, some students feel that this is not enough time for them to adequately prepare for their exams after months of missed classes. Students studying for GCSEs and A-levels are only just settling back into school after months in lockdown, meaning that they have a huge workload to catch up on and a three-week delay does not seem like much.

One Sixth Form student told us “It feels like ages away, but I know it’s not. There isn’t enough time to catch up on everything we’ve missed and everyone’s already so stressed with all the work we have. I guess a small change is better than no change at all, but it’s still going to be difficult for most of us.”

With a second lockdown still in speculation and possible school disruptions looking more and more likely by the day, students feel overwhelmed with the amount of work and revision they will face this next year and are worried about the possible results that they’ll receive.