[Traster]

It's not unlikely, it's practically certain. If you have hundreds of schools there absolutely will be a handful of students who do better than previous years and there will be a handful of students who do worse than ever before. Maybe it's not a big deal to hand a C to someone deserving of an E, but it's certainly a big deal that the moron at the school that gets good grades (read: private school) gets a pass, whilst the genius at the school that historically did badly (read: state school) gets screwed. Now, given that's how this system works, take a look: do you think the politicans repsonsible for this went to the state school?

[tonyedgecombe]

There are always outliers.

Interestingly the private schools seem to be to be grading their students more accurately, the problems were more common in state schools. The moron in a private school was unlikely to get their grades inflated. I'm not a fan of private schooling but in this case they appeared to be doing the right thing.

There will always be outliers, no system is perfect but what we have just done is worse in my mind.