• NOT all students have fantastic relationships with their teachers. Some feel bullied and put down by them.

How students were awarded their A-level grades varied from school to school and also within the school.

Each student needed a teacher to advocate for them, to champion them, to make sure the results actually reflected the student, not just because they liked them or had taught them for seven years but because they were academically able to achieve those grades.

Underestimating or overestimating grades is damaging for all students.

It means that this year some students will transfer to university courses that will be beyond them; and they will probably be forced to drop out as the standards and the support networks are difficult for them to access.

There will be other students who will not go to university, as their relationship with their teachers seriously affected their final grades. They might be academically able but not considered so.

My daughter is one of those students whose poor relationship with vindictive teachers has cost her two places at medical school.

The school are standing by their staff and have made it inordinately difficult for us to appeal.

This is what is says on the appeal form:

“NB: You cannot challenge your school or college under the appeals process on the centre assessment grades it submitted or your rank order positions because any appeal would have to be undertaken by someone better placed than your teachers to judge your likely grade if exams had taken place. In the unique circumstances of this summer Ofqual does not believe there is such a person.”

My daughter is now suffering from post traumatic stress disorder. She has to sit, not resit, (she was never awarded that privilege) two A-levels in seven weeks.

One of the medical schools has held a place for her for next year. They ultimately had more faith in her ability than her school.

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