Last-minute A-level changes in England only benefit small group, says minister

Teaching union condemns late concession to allow appeals based on results in mock exams

Only a “small group of pupils” are likely to benefit from a last-minute concession allowing appeals against A-level grades in England on the basis of mock exam results, the schools minister, Nick Gibb, has said.to the appeals system late on Tuesday night, after the Scottish government was forced to restore the exam grades of more than 120,000 students marked down by a computer algorithm.

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