Devastated Paisley NHS worker claims SQA 'downgrade' has cost her dream nursing career
dailyrecord.co.ukPAISLEY DAILY EXPRESS: Live news as it happens Lauren’s English grade is among thousands across Scotland being questioned after the SQA confirmed students’ past work and predicted grades were slashed purely because of where they live.The exam body - which this year had to find a new way of grading students performance in absence of the usual exams - controversially also looked at each school’s previous history of results.This downgraded the pass rate for the poorest pupils by 15.2 per cent, but only 6.9 per cent for children in living in wealthier postcodes.“The fact that tutors predicted me a C but SQA gave me a D is crazy,” Lauren said.“I was expecting a C as a minimum.“My prelim was a C and I had a portfolio that might have bumped it.
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