The Welsh government has demanded a regrade of this year’s WJEC English GCSE results after education minister Leighton Andrews said he feared there had been an “injustice”.
It comes after an official investigation into the results said the methodology for determining the grade boundaries for candidates in Wales “did not deliver comparable outcomes for the 2012 cohort when compared with the 2011”.
It added that some candidates, particularly those close to the C/D boundary, are likely to have been disadvantaged.
A total of 35,331 candidates sat GCSE English language in June 2012 in Wales and 95 per cent of these were with WJEC.
Mr Andrews expects that “several hundred” candidates will be awarded higher grades as a result of the regrade.
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