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The Class of 2021 Talks About Being in a Senior Year They Never Imagined
“Mentally, I'm not even in a state to think straight. But I don't want to compromise on my career because of the pandemic and its risks.”
The Forgotten A-Level Students Left with No Grades at All
The UK government's U-turn has allowed the majority of students to use teacher-predicted grades as their final results. For students who sat their exams externally, no such predicted grades even exist.
The Frustrating Reality of Getting A-Level Grades Without Doing Exams
This weekend, thousands took to the streets to voice their anger.
‘This Year Is Just Madness’: English State School Kids Slam Unfair A-Levels Grades
An algorithm used to generate exam grades has negatively impacted students at comprehensive state schools and people of colour.
Indian Students Are Struggling in the Pandemic, and the Exam System Is Messing Things up Even More
Free-falling into a version of the future no one saw coming, students across India talk to us about the many hurdles they have to jump through just to graduate.
Medical Students in India Are Asking to Cancel Exams So They Can Focus on Frontline Duty
Resident doctors in Maharashtra, India's worst-hit state, stress that their final-year exams will put undue pressure on them while they’re trying to help coronavirus patients.
Teens Tell Us How They Feel About Their Exams Being Cancelled
The UK government is shutting schools and scrapping GCSEs and A-Levels due to coronavirus. Many students have mixed feelings.
A Bangladeshi Politician Got Expelled From Uni for Hiring Lookalikes to Sit Her Exams
She allegedly paid not one, not two, but eight lookalikes to take her exams.
An Indian College Has Apologised for Making Its Students Wear Boxes Over Their Heads for an Exam
We guess ‘thinking outside the box’ wasn’t a requirement for this one.
25 Students Died by Suicide After an Indian Exam Board Wrongly Failed Them
Teachers were even found guilty of incorrectly giving students 0 marks when they had actually scored 99.
Bimbel Blues: How After-School Cram Sessions Became Necessary in Indonesia
When students put more trust and money in private tutors than actual teachers, you know there's something seriously wrong with the education system.
Cheaters Never Prosper, Unless You Have the Cheating Mafia in Your Corner
A graduate who paid to pass his 10th and 12th board examinations reflects on his decision and where it lead him.