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by MaxBarraclough 2119 days ago
There's more to it. The system being used will lead to grade-inflation, [0] as there are two grade-estimation systems in use and the student gets to keep the better of the two.

The two systems used are teachers' grade predictions, and the grade-prediction algorithm.

We discussed this two weeks ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24191882

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53810655