Half of the responses to the consultation on replacing exams this summer were from students, Schools Week reveals.
Nearly 47,000 students have responded to what education secretary Gavin Williamson claimed was the DfE’s largest ever consultation.
The huge numbers are in marked contrast to last year’s consultation on replacing exams when only one in six responses were from students.
The Ofqual and DfE consultation had received 94,737 responses by 5pm on Friday, the day it closed.
Ofqual and the DfE have proposed using externally set papers to help teachers award GCSE and A-level grades to their pupils this year.
The interim chief exams regulator Simon Lebus has said these did not amount to “exams by the back door.”
Ofqual said it had a team of people reading “all the responses” as they were submitted.