thought students would achieve if they had taken exams (this is called the Centre Assessment Grade). Exam boards then moderated these grades, taking into account how well students at the same school did in the same subjects in the past three years.
Critics have branded this a postcode lottery.The results were released this morning (August 13), and it’s emerged that 39.1 per cent of pupils’ grades were downgraded.
This has placed increasing pressure for the Government, with Labour leader Keir Starmer claiming that the current process “has fundamentally failed” and that “the Government needs to rethink this”.
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