Schools were closed in the UK and then latterly Jersey due to the COVID-19 pandemic last month.
Exam boards will be contacting schools and colleges after Easter to ask them to submit their judgements by a deadline that will be no earlier than May 29, according to UK media reports. The decision will affect students in Jersey.
Schools must not share these grades with students and parents until final results are issued. It is hoped pupils will receive their grades before the pre-planned results days in August.
Yesterday, Ofqual, the exam regulator, said teachers’ judgements on grades should take into account a full range of evidence – including classwork, non-exam assessment, mock exams or previous results.
If grading judgements in some schools and colleges appear to be more severe or generous than others, exam boards will adjust the grades of students accordingly, the regulator has said.
Ofqual chief regulator Sally Collier said in a statement: ‘School or college-based assessment already has an important role in many GCSEs, AS and A-levels, and in extraordinary circumstances such as these schools and colleges are best-placed to judge the likely performance of their students at the end of the course.
‘We have worked closely with the teaching profession to ensure that what we are asking is both appropriate and manageable, so that everyone can have confidence in the approach.’
She added: ‘We have published a message to students to reassure them that we, and exam boards, will do everything we can to make sure that, as far as possible, grades are fair and that they are not disadvantaged in their progress to sixth form, college, university, apprenticeships, training or work because of these unprecedented conditions.’
