This is the moment disappointed A-level students react to being ‘completely screwed over’ amid an A-level marking clampdown as the proportion of top grades plunged.
Heartbreaking grades
The heartbreaking footage showed family members and teachers comforting teens who were left disappointed by the grades they were handed this morning.
One mother crowded around her daughter as she opened her results, encouraging her by saying, ‘A, B, C. That’s good!’, only to be told bluntly by the unimpressed pupil, ‘that’s awful’.
Another parent peeks over the shoulder of her son’s results to say, ‘You’re a bit disappointed aren’t you’, to which he replies: ‘It’s alright… For f**k sake.’
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Others were reduced to tears after they teared into the envelope, being consoled by their friends, as another downhearted student said: ‘Psychology was meant to be my highest grade and it seems to be two grades below what I expected.’
Some other good….
It was not all doom and gloom for some, however, as a mother and father emotionally embraced their child as he revealed his good results.
Another mother and daughter can be seen with tears of joy as they hugged and celebrated the good news.
Two students also took to TikTok to share their reaction to opening their A Level results grades.
However, the grand reveal video didn’t go exactly to plan as the pair were not happy with what they saw, despite already knowing they had got into university.
One of them complained: ‘My parents are actually going to kill me. They were expecting A’s.’
This year’s pupils who received their A-level results today did not sit GCSE exams two years ago and were awarded teacher-assessed grades amid the pandemic.
Most had not sat in a formal exam hall since they took SATs when they were 11-years-old.
Described as ‘the unluckiest’ cohort of students, this year’s exams were the first formal tests they have ever taken because of Covid-19 disruption at schools.
A-level student Deniz said on TikTok: ‘I saw straight A-star students, students who would do the whole course in front of you with their eyes closed, getting Bs and Cs.’
Jas, from Somerset, said she was expecting straight As in her results this morning so felt bitterly disappointed to see two Bs on her results sheet.
Explaining that she thinks changes to the grade boundaries are partly to blame, she told the BBC: ‘They are good grades – I was lucky.’
However, I’ve been expecting higher. So I was upset this morning and annoyed as I have worked really hard, as have all of my friends.
‘Now the boundaries have changed, we’re getting lower grades – lower than last year. It isn’t fair.’
Ofqual has said protection was ‘built into’ this year’s grading process – earlier we had a look at whether this year really was fair for students in England.
Some 250,000 students have now received their grades in a year when ministers and the exams regulator in England aimed to return to pre-pandemic grading.
