teachers’ predictions.Having had five months prior to results day to prepare, in true A-Level form, they seemingly rushed this concept the night before and ended up cocking it up spectacularly.
Widespread anger at the results – and the blatant favouritism to private schools – sparked protests and forced an embarrassing U-Turn.
The now-binned algorithm was based upon ranking students within their subject cohorts, before awarding higher grades to the highest ranking student.
Private schools, with typically smaller classes, benefited from this process.It was upsetting enough that, in March, my fellow students and I learned that we were not going to have the chance to sit the exams for subjects we’d worked on for over 18-months.
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