Chalkface has been following the developing story on how May/June cancelled exam session grades are to be awarded. This article from the BBC gives the latest updates.
A-level and GCSE students in England will be given grades estimated by their teachers, rather than by an algorithm, after a government U-turn.
It follows uproar after about 40% of A-level results were downgraded by exams regulator Ofqual, which used a formula based on schools' prior grades.
Teachers' estimates will be awarded to students unless the computer algorithm gave a higher grade.
This is good news for students that had their grades lowered by use of the algorithm. It now remains to be seen as to what are the larger implications of this for university entrance.
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