The council has confirmed it will be joining other local authorities in an attempt to seek a judicial review into the altering of grade boundaries for GCSE examinations between January and June this year.
The council took the decision after conducting a thorough survey of predicted and actual GCSE pass grades among all of our secondary schools which found that as many as 100 students who sat exams in June were adversely affected by the grade boundaries being reset.
We believe that the AQA and Edexcel exam boards altered their grades between January and June of this year which resulted in a marked difference in students' predicted and actual grades.
On behalf of the hundred or so students affected in Brent and the many thousands of other young people across England we are whole heartedly behind the legal challenge to Ofqual for a thorough investigation into this matter.
– Brent's Lead Member for Children and Families Cllr. Mary Arnold
A formal joint letter of complaint, to which Brent is signatory, was issued to Ofqual on 20 September calling for a judicial review into the increase in grade boundaries.
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