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HOSE sixth-form students who have once again performed extraordinarily well, and achieved another staggeringly brilliant set of results in this summer's A-levels, will be disappointed to hear a fresh battalion of critics today denouncing the exams for being too easy. Imagine how any individual would feel, having committed two years' work to their studies, pulled all the stops out to do their very best, and then be told their wonderful grades were chiefly down to the simplicity of the exam, rather than their own unstinting efforts.
It is time for this annual August ritual to cease, and instead recognise that those students who have chosen to sit A-levels - and less than 50% of teenagers actually do - can stick the course and are capable of great things.See the full content of this document
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Reformonly Way to Silence Critics
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