Opinion: Letting teachers award exam results without supervision is unfair to all students

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Opinion: Letting teachers award exam results without supervision is unfair to all students
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The problem is that teachers’ estimated grades for their students ended up being too generous compared to the results achieved in previous years, and not by a small margin

. In 2019, 7.7 per cent of students achieved an A* at A-level. If the grades submitted by teachers this year had been allowed to stand, the percentage of A* grades would have leapt to 13.9 per cent.

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