A-level and GCSE results to be higher this summer
August 11, 2020
Original Article: https://www.bbc.com/news/education-53492283?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/cywd23g0gmvt/exams&link_location=live-reporting-story
GCSE and A-level results in England will be higher this summer, with exam boards set to be more lenient. Written exams were cancelled because of the pandemic - with pupils' results to be based on predicted outcomes. The exam regulator says it is also confident, from preliminary results, that there has been no "unconscious bias" in predicted grades that would have disadvantaged ethnic minorities or poorer students.
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