{"id":2097,"date":"2012-09-19T09:27:22","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T08:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/?p=2097"},"modified":"2012-09-19T09:27:22","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T08:27:22","slug":"gcse-grades-now-in-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2012\/09\/19\/gcse-grades-now-in-question\/","title":{"rendered":"GCSE Science grades now in question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that a similar situation to the English GCSE has occurred in the Science GCSE. The grade boundaries were changed part-way through the year.  <\/p>\n<p>Apparently, year 10 pupils who sat the AQA board chemistry and biology modules this January needed up to 11 more marks to get an  A* grade than those who sat the same modules in June. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/education-19599279\" title=\"BBC News \" target=\"_blank\">BBC News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that a similar situation to the English GCSE has occurred in the Science GCSE. The grade boundaries were changed part-way through the year. Apparently, year 10 pupils who sat the AQA board chemistry and biology modules this January needed up to 11 more marks to get an A* grade than those who sat &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2012\/09\/19\/gcse-grades-now-in-question\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GCSE Science grades now in question<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}