Exams Information

Dear students, parents and carers,

You will have now received your GSCE/A level and/or vocational results. Congratulations! It has been a difficult year with many disruptions and your grade is a reflection on all the hard work you put in.  All the staff at JFS are exceptionally proud of you.

As you know, exams this year were cancelled by the government in January and replaced by a process of Teacher Assessed Grades (TAGs) in order to grade students. The TAGs we submitted were in line with our Centre Policies, which were approved by the exam boards; the BTEC Centre Policy can be read here and the General Qualification Centre Policy can be read here. We also had to send a sample of our evidence and grading to the exam boards as part of quality assurance check which was successfully approved.

If you are unhappy with your grade, please do feel that you can speak to us.  We are available today and then via email.

Teams link for the UCAS/A Level Results Day Surgery on Tuesday 10 August from 9:00am-2:30pm. Please click here to join.

If you wish to appeal your grade, you should follow the appeals process set out here. The first stage of any appeal is a Centre Review, in which we will check if any administrative or procedural errors have occurred. If students remain unhappy with the outcome of centre review, they can ask that we put forward an appeal to the awarding organisation on their behalf. The deadlines for this are:

• Centre Review deadline for priority appeals: 16^th August 2021
• Centre Review deadline for non-priority appeals: 3rd September 2021
• Awarding Organisation deadline for priority appeals: 19^th August 2021
• Awarding Organisation deadline for non-priority appeals: 10^th September 2021

We must receive a Centre Review request by the deadline before we can progress it to an awarding organisation appeal.

Priority appeals are only for A level students who have not met the conditional offer of their firm choice of university; in which case they should have notified their university of this.

Please note that during either of the appeals stages, results could go up or down or stay the same. You will not keep the higher of the grades, and an appeal cannot be withdrawn once a decision has been made.

Alternatively, all GCSE, AS and A level qualifications can be resat in the autumn term.

The deadline to submit an application to take an A Level exam in the Autumn series is 3^rd September 2021.  Please fill in the form here.

The deadline to submit an application to take a GCSE exam in the Autumn series is 30^th September 2021. Please fill in the form here.

Best wishes,

The Sixth Form Team

TAG APPEALS

The following JCQ documents may be helpful:

JCQ-Guidance-for-Students-and-Parents-on-Summer-2021.pdf

Student guide to awarding: summer 2021

I WANT TO REVIEW & APPEAL MY GRADE(S)

Should you wish your grades to be reviewed and appealed, you must in the first instance complete the Stage 1 form to and email it to the following email only:  Appeals2021@jfs.brent.sch.uk

Stage 1 – JCQ Centre Review Form

Stage 2 –  JCQ Appeal to Awarding Organisations Form

Please do not send appeals to individual teachers.  It will only be checked at the above email address.

• We will not start processing non-priority appeals until the start of term.
• Additionally, because of the Jewish holidays, there can be no extension to the deadline dates.