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A-level mocks a complete failure

chucklepie

Hello,

My son has HFA. For this he receives additional time in exams to read the papers.

On finishing GCSE's he got mostly A and B grades. However, he's finding the mock-exams at A-level grade difficult in that on his latest he got a U. 

The problem is he fully understands the subject (and his other subjects) and probably knows more about it than the others but he simply cannot infer from the questions what they want him to say (he doesn't take things literally like answering 'yes' to questions requiring a full answer, just fails to pick out what is being inferred).

It seems the move to A-level is exaggerating this greatly.

It's really quite sad that someone who clearly fully understanding the entire topic to a high level will fail completely due to this.

Is there anything that can be done, e.g. (I doubt it but) is there a way exam questions can be altered to be more specific, or are there any books available where I/he can read to attempt to improve his ability to interpret questions, etc. ?

Thanks.

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  • Just to let you know that my son with ASC also did not do as well as he expected in his mocks and was quite upset about it. He normally averages around 90% and was getting 40% in some of his mocks.

    However, his whole year group did badly (he is in a mainstream school) whose attainment of A-C grades at A level is in the 90% area.    Some of the top achievers were getting marks well below their average and they are NT.  

    It might be worth checking to see if the NT's were also struggling, and if this is the case it may not be due to your childs ASC,  but just a new skill he needs to acquire to interpret the question correctly.

    Good luck

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  • Just to let you know that my son with ASC also did not do as well as he expected in his mocks and was quite upset about it. He normally averages around 90% and was getting 40% in some of his mocks.

    However, his whole year group did badly (he is in a mainstream school) whose attainment of A-C grades at A level is in the 90% area.    Some of the top achievers were getting marks well below their average and they are NT.  

    It might be worth checking to see if the NT's were also struggling, and if this is the case it may not be due to your childs ASC,  but just a new skill he needs to acquire to interpret the question correctly.

    Good luck

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