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The cancellation of GCSE and A-Level exams this week was a welcome announcement for countless students who’ve had one of the most important years of their education defined by the pandemic.

But a minority of students are calling on the Government to reinstate the exams. Re-sit students, who were due to take their A-levels again in 2020 but saw them cancelled due to the pandemic, are once again in limbo following the latest announcement.

Pupils retaking assessments because of poor grades acheived the first time, often due to extenuating circumstances such as family bereavement or ill-health, have paid hundreds of pounds and put their lives on hold for more than a year to retake their A-Levels.

Unable to use their predicted grades as last year’s cohort were, many students have waited two years to finally sit the exams and prove themselves – and now face the possibility of spending a third year waiting for the chance.

A petition has been launched calling for the exams to recommence in summer. So far it has accumulated more than 7,000 signatures.

‘We were robbed of our futures’

Osmn, 19, was one of the students last year whose predicted grades were downgraded thanks to an algorithm designed to standardise results that was found to disproportionately impact poorer students. Teachers said he could have achieved AAA, but he instead opened his results and saw BCC.

“I’m an ethnic minority of working class background and went to college in one of the most deprived areas of Birmingham,” he told i.

He was told to go through clearing and go to university, but he felt he could do better. He decided to take the gamble and re-sit his exams as students were promised they would go ahead in 2021.

“We were robbed of our futures and true potential last year and we can’t let it happen again because of the same incompetency.” He’s spoken to other students in the same boat and claims many have described feeling suicidal.

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For 19-year-old Saima, this summer was a chance to meet the AAA grades she was predicted to get in 2019.

“The main contributing factor to my poor results was the fact that I was working a retail job throughout Year 13 in order to financially aid my family, as the student bursary could barely cover college expenses alone (such as transport, food and revision materials),” she told i.

She understood students were advised not to work part time jobs towards the end of the year, but she felt pressure to keep her job throughout the exam season due to family financial struggles.

“This combined with the anxiety I had at the time led to me not achieving the results I needed, so I decided to take a gap year to re-sit last year, but exams were cancelled and the private centre that I’m using to re-sit gave me an option to either be refunded or to take a second gap year.” She took the latter.

The college she went to doesn’t allow re-sits so she saved £800 on her own to pay for two A-levels. Saving the money was draining, she said, but she was motivated to because going to a good university is so important to her. She now feels “disheartened and anxious” knowing it’s no longer a case of her not knowing the content and doing well, but that she cannot physically take the exams.

“It’s frustrating knowing that I’m capable of going to my top choice university and unable to do so as we are being unaccounted for yet again,” she said. “The same situation happened last year and there was nothing in place to help students studying at home unless they had private tutors willing to vouch for them, which, as someone from a low income background and unable to afford tutoring, was impossible tor me.”

In April last year, Ofqual – the exam and qualification regulator – said independent students can get their grades – so-called centre-assessed grades (CAGs) – from exam centres where they were due to sit assessments if the head was confident staff had seen sufficient evidence of their achievements, and that they would be included in the centre’s rank order.

But many centres have maintained they are not able to give CAGs, saying they didn’t know candidates well enough to give a grade.

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Ofqual said it worked with exam boards to allow pupils the option of transferring from one centre to another where teachers know them. Candidates had the option to sit exams in autumn last year, which many felt unprepared for, or in summer 2021, effectively forcing them to take a second gap year from progressing their education. That’s exactly what thousands of students did.

Aisha, 19, took her A-Levels in 2019. Due to external circumstances she received DDD, despite being predicted A*AB and receiving offers from Bristol and Southampton.

“I was aware of my ability so I re-took the year,” she told i, paying £400 to sit the exams in 2020. Alongside last year’s A-Level fiasco, she was offered grades but they were the same she had received in the exams originally. She felt her only option was to wait another year to sit the exam.

“Many of us feel disheartened as we are aware of our ability but weren’t taken into consideration. I recently took one out of my three A levels in October. I got an A. From a D to an A. I think anyone can imagine the happiness I felt.”

The further delay on her future is deeply upsetting, she said, and “tormenting my mental health – I feel as if I keep getting pushed behind or forgotten about”.

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“We need education to keep going. We need people to take exams. I believe in myself and I want to do well. It’s so mentally draining to be constantly worrying about exams; being constantly put behind whilst you see other students in your year or people younger thriving, knowing that could have been you too.”

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On Wednesday, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson told the House of Commons the department has worked with Ofqual and arranged “a range of contingency options” following the cancellation of this year’s exams, promising that “the details of the approach will be developed in consultation with the exam boards and the sector”.

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Re-sit students are now anxiously waiting to find out how this will affect them. Further details on exams are still expected, a Department for Education spokesperson told i.

The Department for Education said on Wednesday that “the exams regulator Ofqual will launch a consultation – alongside the department – on the options for alternatives to the exams to ensure every young person gets a fair grade for their work, with the expectation that teacher assessment will be used”.