However, the longtime coming notification has failed to provide enough clarity to schools and students alike, once again leaving them at their wits end. Cambridge students to be graded on ‘skills, knowledge’ amid coronavirus crisisSeveral school administrations across the country have expressed their reservations about offering mock exams and class work as evidence. “For instance, students often take school-based exams a bit casually but still tend to outperform all previous assessments in external exams. Now that there’s this new decision to grade students based partly on their tutor’s evidence, several tutors I know of have already started hinting at accepting a pretty penny for a bumped-up grade. “I think instead of relying on a one-shot system, Cambridge should rather adopt a system of continuous assessments, which would prove helpful in situations like such,” she asserted.

Source: The Express Tribune April 04, 2020 13:38 UTC