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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Archie Bland

Friday briefing: Why this year’s A-level cohort might be the ‘unluckiest of all’

Students check their results at Abbeywood Community School, Bristol on 18 August, 2022.
Students check their results at Abbeywood Community School, Bristol on 18 August, 2022. Photograph: Adrian Sherratt/Alamy

Good morning, and if you’ve screwed up your A-levels, consider this: my results seemed fine and now I’m nearly 40 and getting up at five in the morning to send an email for a living. (This is called the reverse Clarkson.)

If that sort of consolation message is as familiar as a picture of teenage girls jumping in the air, this year’s results day did have more unusual – and significant – features.

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