Wisconsin election dates, 2021. Statewide election dates in Wisconsin are listed below. For more dates, please see the elections calendar. Statewide election dates. February 16, 2021: Primary April 6, 2021: General election Polling hours: 7 a.m. Local election dates. Under proposals published by the exam watchdog, Ofqual, results day could also be moved forward a month from August to early July By Will Hazell January 15, 2021 6:10 pm.
| GCSE November 2020 Results Day for English Language, Welsh Language and Mathematics | 14 January 2021 |
| GCSE November 2020 Results Day for all other subjects | 11 February 2021 |
| AS/A Level Results Day | 24 August 2021 |
| GCSE Results Day | 27 August 2021 |
Results Day is a big day for learners, but it’s important to stay relaxed and to keep things in perspective. Whether you’re collecting your GCSEor A level results – remember that you’ll have a range of options and pathways available to you, whatever your grades!
Be sure to check back to this page for all the latest information as we get closer to Results Day. For now, this handy ‘Guide to Results’ will give you a good insight into what to expect on the big day.
Grade Boundaries
Grade Boundaries are the minimum number of marks needed to achieve each grade. While we make sure exam papers are written to the same level of difficulty; they do vary every year.
After you’ve finished your exams, grade boundaries for every subject are set by an experienced team of experts – including senior examiners. These are then approved by the regulator.
Having grade boundaries ensures that whenever the exam is sat, learners will always receive the same grade for the same level of performance. You can read more about grade boundaries in our ‘Guide to Results’.
You can access grade boundaries on our website from 8am on Results Day – so watch this space!
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.), on the day President Joe Biden took office, released new coronavirus testing guidelines for laboratories worldwide that may result in fewer infections reported by health officials.
On Inauguration Day, the W.H.O. issued the new directives for the commonly used PCR testing in the form of a “medical product alert,” indicating that a patient who comes out positive may need to take a second test and present symptoms to be considered infected.
The next day, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disease expert in the U.S. government, revealed that his new boss, Biden, had signed a letter to rejoin the organization.
In July 2020, Trump withdrew from the W.H.O. for helping China hide the severity of the coronavirus that originated within its borders during the disease’s early stages, allowing it to spread to the world.
Independent assessments by media outlets and a recently released report commissioned by the W.H.O. itself have confirmed Trump’s reasons for pulling out of the international body.
Some individuals discussed the new guidelines on Twitter:
PCR positive is no longer = Covid. You are not Covid now unless you get a second test to confirm it, and are presenting clinical symptoms. We shall see what the net impact of this indeed is.
Released 20/21 Jan 2020https://t.co/giAYWjQFDBpic.twitter.com/axKemwS2Sx
— Ethical Skeptic ☀ (@EthicalSkeptic) January 20, 2021
On Tuesday, the W.H.O advised laboratories that a single PCR test, considered the “gold standard” by health officials, is no longer enough, noting that an asymptomatic person who tests positive may need a second test for confirmation.
“Where test results do not correspond with the clinical presentation, a new specimen should be taken and retested using the same or different [PCR test],” W.H.O. officials wrote. W.H.O. officials now say that the PCR tests that have been used across the U.S. and elsewhere to detect coronavirus infections are a mere “aid for diagnosis,” adding:
Therefore, health care providers must consider any result in combination with timing of sampling, specimen type, assay specifics, clinical observations, patient history, confirmed status of any contacts, and epidemiological information.
The W.H.O. did not say why it waited over a year after health officials first detected the virus in China to release the testing guidelines, which suggest that some laboratories have been misdiagnosing some infections.
“Up until COVID hit in 2020, neither WHO nor the CDC had ever considered a single positive PCR test sufficient for diagnosing viral infection,” Michael Thau from Red State noted.
Turns out during all 4 epidemics prior to COVID-19 since 2000, CDC & WHO were concerned about the high false-positive rates for PCR tests & issued guidelines to try and minimize them. But for C19, both somehow forgot all about PCR false-positive rates.https://t.co/XC4w46G62Vpic.twitter.com/xfxXedyt9j
— Michael Thau (@MichaelThau) August 30, 2020
W.H.O. officials now explain:
[D]isease prevalence alters the predictive value of test results; as disease prevalence decreases, the risk of false positive increases. …. This means that the probability that a person who has a positive result (SARS-CoV-2 detected) is truly infected with SARS-CoV-2 decreases as prevalence decreases, irrespective of the claimed specificity.
SARS-CoV-2 is the official name of the coronavirus.
An assessment carried out by an independent international panel established by the W.H.O. determined this month that both China and the U.N. entity fumbled their response to the virus during the early stages of the outbreak, as Trump suspected.
A Level Results Day 2021
Before Trump pulled out of the W.H.O., the United States was the agency’s top contributor but had less clout than China, which provided the U.N. with substantially less funding.