The coronavirus pandemic has made it impossible for UK students to take any traditional exams. In England, these include GCSEs, the qualifications that mark the end of compulsory school education, AS ...

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There will be “no algorithms whatsoever” to determine GCSE and A-Level exam results this year following the chaos of last summer, the Education Secretary has confirmed. Full details of how students ...

His announcement comes after last summer there was outrage at the algorithm used to determine who to grade pupils in the absence of exams. Speaking in the Commons today, the Education Secretary said ...

Students in the UK didn't sit GCSE or A-level exams this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. An algorithm was instead created by the official exam regulator, Ofqual, to assess students' grades - ...