Due to the closure of schools across the world over COVID-19, year 10 and 12 students are going to miss out on being taught up to half of their courses, which they are expected to learn for themselves at home with little to no support from teachers as many students agree that online learning is not as effective. This loss of teaching will have a serious impact on their ability to access the exams they are going to have to take next year.

The government has already decided that cancelling the 2020 series of exams for current year 11 and 13 students is an appropriate solution given the circumstances and give them grades predicted by their teachers who know them and their abilities. I think that it would only be fair to do the same for year 10 and 12 students as they are going to miss out on the same amount of learning as year 11 and 13 students and are therefore equally affected.

As different schools teach the IGCSE,GCSE and A-level courses in different ways and cover topics at different times, students from different schools will miss out on the teaching of different topics from each other, which would put certain students at a significant disadvantage in their exams as topics they haven't covered but others have may come up. Therefore, I believe that in order to make it fair for students set to take their exams in 2021, assessments should take place within centres on the content that they have been able to cover and teachers should give students grades based on these internal assessments.

I believe this is the only fair way to examine the IGCSEs,GCSEs and A-levels in 2021.

thank you.