Thousands of students from poor backgrounds who had been predicted A-grades today opened their exam results to find they had failed. Due to the pandemic, teenagers in Scotland became the first in the UK to get their results despite not sitting any exams. But for 125,000 of them, it was a disappointing day, as their grades had been lowered by the country’s exam board, Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA). A quarter of all pupils getting their results today found their final grades were lower than they had been predicted – some even claimed they had been dropped from an A to an F. Coronavirus saw exams cancelled and instead replaced with a system that would grant students the grades that their teachers had already predicted for them. But as the results came, SQA released their awarding methodology, revealing that grades had been granted proportionate to the school’s performance level in previous years – and not based on the advice of teachers.
Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2020/08/04/working-class-students-predicted-fail-exams-schools-historic-results-13081838/?ito=newsnow-feed?ito=cbshare