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Yes wanted/needed. SQA took speculative appealing out a couple of years ago. No doubt there will be some cases where it is appropriate but this year evidence will be sparse.
I have a lazy pupil who does better in exams than work through the year would suggest (SQA want evidence based judgement). I know they've got an online tutor and due to flunking the "prelim" have been hitting work hard (concerned for mental health) but if they don't make it to the next assessment I have to use the poor prelim and they lose the place on the high tarriff uni course.
When I say perform better we only have 1piece of evidence for this from two years ago and although you can be trained to pass N5 you need ability to pass AH.
100th - I know parents of a few like that... I'm not sure what they expected when exams were cancelled, its not like last time when it was a bit of a surprise and you might have been resting all your hopes on pulling off a miracle again - its was entirely predictable that exams might be cancelled and they were fairly early on! If you got Prelims in your are better than some schools. There are pupils at my son's school in S6 who probably got lucky with the debacle last year and on hearing exams were cancelled again seemed to assume everything would just be OK again - but seemingly haven't been that engaged in learning! At the opposite extreme there are pupils who have unconditional offers (so don't need a grade), have plenty of evidence and are still stressing the "assessments" like their entire future depends on it!