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Exam results: Calls for inquiry as 2900 North Lanarkshire candidates downgraded

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Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.North Lanarkshire’s education convener says nearly half of all Higher candidates across the authority had grades reduced in the SQA moderation process.Frank McNally says analysis of the area’s results shows 4951 individual grades, affecting 2900 young people or 46 per cent of candidates, were downgraded from their teachers’ estimates on Tuesday’s results day.He described the process – which saw pass rate estimates for the most deprived areas reduced by 15.2 per cent, compared to 6.9 per cent for the country’s most affluent areas – as “nothing short of a scandal”.Councillor McNally is now calling for an independent inquiry into the “fiasco” and has lodged an.

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