Last Thursday, I was one of the many students who received their A-level results (Editorial, 17 August). Although I didn’t achieve the exact grades I needed, I still managed to get into my first-choice university. But I would like to comment on the way that the government has treated my year group.
The last proper formal exams I sat before my A-levels were my Sats in year 6. To expect a group of children to go through a pandemic and suffer all the consequences – a lack of proper education, mental health problems, huge disruption to our normal lives – and then sit full A-level exams seems extraordinary and cruel.
