We have our predicted grades. That's what our teachers think we can achieve.

The decisions about our exams and our grades are being made by a team that mostly does not interact with us on a regular basis. We ask that these things are discussed more thoroughly with us, the students who have to sit the exams, and that our pleas aren't ignored.

Here are the requests we ask you to consider

-Make every assessment we receive optional for if we want to improve the predicted grades we have been given or if a teacher specifically requests us to sit an exam. That way we avoid the unnecessary risk of having large numbers of students in the same room and the unnecessary stress that exams can cause for those who are already content with their grades, especially in such a stress-inducing time.

-If this is impossible due to a lack of evidence of our abilities, exams should at least be postponed for a good amount of time, as two weeks revision time for an exam is unreasonable to expect from students who practically haven't learned anything since before Christmas. Please allow at least 4 full weeks whilst in school so that we can ask teachers for support more directly than the online support system.