ISLAMABAD
\nParents of Cambridge students have said that retakes are not acceptable at all. The parents and students demand revised grades which will eventually be the solution to all the problems.
\nParents in a statement said they have requested Cambridge to schedule the 9-11 May cancelled exams at a later date but they refused.
\nThey complained that Cambridge failed the students in Pakistan by what they called the \u201cunjust grading and assessed grades\u201d. They disagreed with the suggestion the students sit for retakes. \u201cWhy didn\u2019t they listen to the parents earlier when they requested to reschedule the cancelled exams,\u201d they asked.
\nParents pointed out that the government has proposed the schools to pay 80 percent for the rechecks to which they are not agreeing. \u201cNearly 45000 Pakistani students have been affected by the unjust grading by Cambridge,\u201d a parent said.
\nThe exams components that were cancelled have been marked Us and Es and those not cancelled have been marked the same way too, she said. \u201cStudents with straight A\u2019s and As in O\u2019Level and School Assessed Grades have been given straight Ds, Es and Us in A Levels.\u201d
\nParents were of the view that students already on gap years will have to go through another gap year, adding retake in not the solution at all because parents can\u2019t afford such huge sums of Cambridge fee again.
\nSince retakes are a month away, it is impossible for the students to cover two years of syllabus in one month which will eventually lead to worse grades.
\nThey said rechecks will cost around 1.5 lac per subject as every subject has 4-5 components and schools aren\u2019t cooperating at all and not following the 80\/20 policy.
\n\u201cWe don\u2019t want to give exams again, which already we have given with full preparations,\u201d parents said and demanded that grades should be revised with low threshold and transcript grades should be awarded. Parents complained that Cambridge gave unfair grading overall subjects due to the 9th May incident.
\nThe prime minister also told the Education Minister to solve this issue, but still no one is taking any action. Secretary Education intervened and then he decided to take retakes again in Oct\/Nov.
\n\u201cIf they wanted retakes they should have done it in May\/June after giving the result they are saying they will retake again.\u201d
\nParents said retakes are not an option as many students are going abroad and many have started their universities in Oct\/. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD Parents of Cambridge students have said that retakes are not acceptable at all. The parents and students demand revised grades which will eventually be the solution to all the problems. Parents in a statement said they have requested Cambridge to schedule the 9-11 May cancelled exams at a later date but they refused. They […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-353458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national"},"yoast_head":"\n