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UK scraps exam grading system that enraged students, parents

by Associated Press
| August 17, 2020 10:06 AM

LONDON (AP) — In a U-turn after days of criticism, the British government on Monday scrapped an exam-grading policy that was set to deprive thousands of graduating high school students — especially more disadvantaged ones — of places at universities.

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