The Student Room Group
Reply 1
I think it was possibly due to a huge increase of A grades due to the new AS system.
Reply 3
The row first erupted after the Oxford and Cambridge and RSA (OCR) exam boards admitted that some results were downgraded to ensure this year's results were of the same standard as the year before.
It is clear that OCR, AQA and Edexcel have statistically manipulated the decisions of awarding committees at chief executive level, bringing results down for candidates in both maintained and independent schools. (remarks from BBC News website)



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/2370063.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/2267953.stm