A TORY minister has admitted that 40% of A-level grades will have been “revised” when they are sent out tomorrow.

Concerns were raised that students in England could have their grades downgraded, as happened in Scotland, because of the replacement grading system introduced after lockdown.

England’s exam regulator Ofqual confirmed standardisation would draw on the historical outcomes of a centre.

Yesterday all Scottish pupils marked down by the SQA found out their grades would be withdrawn and replaced with teachers’ estimates as the Education Secretary apologised to them.

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England, however, has refused to scrap the “standardisation” system. The Department of Education instead announced a “triple lock”, meaning pupils receiving A-level results can accept that grade or change it for a mark gained in a mock exam.

Schools minister Nick Gibb defended the reforms this morning, saying: "There's no confusion.

"We apologise to nobody for finding solutions, even at the 11th hour, to stop any student being disadvantaged by this system.”

However, he revealed that two out of five A-level grades will be “revised”.

He told LBC: "Forty per cent of grades will have been adjusted tomorrow.

"But the vast majority by just one grade.”

Keir Starmer has hit out at Boris Johnson over the system, saying it is a "blatant injustice" that young people were having their futures decided by their postcode.

The Labour leader went on: “Unless Boris Johnson acts, he risks robbing a generation of young people of their future."