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A Level playing field? Exam results during the pandemic
2020-08-17
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Recently, students got their A Level results, despite having never sat an exam.
How did the government decide what grades to give students? What methodology did they use? How has this affected the distribution of results?
This week, we speak with Jack Britton, Associate Director at IFS and expert on education, to get to the bottom of how this year's A Level results were calculated.
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