Cleverly expects A-level results to be lower due to 'inflated' pandemic grades

Ahead of this year’s A-level results being released to students, current Education Secretary James Cleverly has suggested it was "always the plan" to bring A-level results down after two years of 'inflated' teacher assessed grades during the pandemic.

In an interview with Sky News, Cleverly said:

"Ofqual, we've been working very closely with, and the plan was always to get those grades back to the kind of levels we were seeing before the pandemic, when they were more generous. It was always the plan to get them back.

"That is going to be seen this year, so students might get slightly lower grades than perhaps they were expecting."

Cleverly, the sixth Education Secretary in just five years, also revealed that his own A-level education was 'messed up' by his laziness.

He told Good Morning Britain: "I just didn’t do any work and my exam results reflected quite accurately the amount of effort I had put in.

"Don’t ask me what my results were. I do remember but I’m not going to tell you. They were awful. I’m not going to tell you.”

On last year's results day, former Education Secretary Gavin Williamson claimed he had "forgotten" his results when asked how he faired.