Students who fail to achieve the A-level grades they are hoping for face an anxious wait to see if their university dreams can be fulfilled.
This Thursday hundreds of thousands of students in England will receive grades that are largely based on teachers estimating individual grades which are moderated by the exam board depending on the performance of the school involved.
But after controversy in Scotland, where close to 125,000 students' grades were downgraded from their teacher predictions only to be restored after an embarrassing U-turn, the government has tweaked its grading policy.
Students now can fall back on marks for their mock exams if they are higher, or retake exams in the autumn. It comes after the government called on
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