Predicted grades system under fire as students await A-Level results this week

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last week when the Scottish Government were forced to perform a U-turn over the Nat 5 and Higher exam results the UK Government has also now caved into the pressure from outraged parents, pupils and teachers.

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SNP Government U-turn. Fiona Robertson, from the Scottish Qualifications Authority, will appear before MSPs at Holyrood as part of a probe into downgraded exams which appeared to penalise pupils in poorer areas.

Mock exam grades will be able to be used to allow GCSE and A-level students in England to progress to university, college and employment, the government is set to announce.Unions have been calling on the Government to follow Scotland’s lead in scrapping moderated grades after the downgrading of more than 124,000 results was reversed.Schools held mock exams before they were forced to close to try and control the spread of Covid-19.The results of those tests will now carry the same weight as the

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John Swinney will tell pupils how their controversial school grades will be reviewed today after a climbdown by the First Minister.Swinney, who is also deputy first minister, is facing calls to resign over his handling of controversial assessments to replace exams wiped out by coronavirus.Teachers’ estimates were more likely to be downgraded by the Scottish Qualifications Authority among pupils from less well-off areas of Scotland.It led to protests by pupils in the centre of Glasgow and, after

exam results marked down by a grade or more. The level of controversial downgrading at Greenwood Academy in North Ayrshire emerged in a council table seen by the Daily Record.

furious backlash by pupils and her own SNP colleagues. The First Minister admitted teenagers gathered in the middle of Glasgow were "entitled to be angry" but said they should rely on an appeals process.

pupil grading system is to give evidence to a Holyrood committee. Fiona Robertson of the Scottish Qualifications Authority will be asked to account for a new set up that has seen over 100,000 results downgraded.