Mixed emotions for A-level students with almost 40 per cent of results downgraded

Close to 40 per cent of A-level grades were downgraded, figures show, amid calls for the Government to U-turn on its grading system.

A total of 39.1 per cent of grades in England were lowered from teachers’ predictions, data from the exam regulator Ofqual showed. The graph below shows the breakdown.

The majority of grades (35.6 per cent) were lowered by one grade, while 3.3 per cent were pulled down by two grades and 0.2 per cent were bought down by three grades.

This year 27.6 per cent of A-levels were graded as A or A*, which is a 2.4 increase on last year and is the highest proportion of top grades since 2001.

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