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August always means an anxious wait for results days, but this year pupils will be feeling particularly apprehensive. England’s exams regulator, Ofqual, has said that national results will be lower than last year’s and are expected to be similar to those before Covid. Some reports estimate that around 50,000 A-level students will therefore miss out on getting the A*
Some of last year's students say they lost university places when their results were delayed.
School leavers face competition for university places this summer due to more 18-year-olds in the population, Ucas and Ofqual bosses have said.Ahead of A-level results day next month, students have been told to “take some time to thoroughly conside...
A'level and GCSE examn results are weeks away - but with things back to normal after the Covid pandemic how will grading work?
Only a fifth of parents think that their children should take all their GCSE and A-level exams with pen and paper, the exams regulator will reveal today.