Angry students took to the streets of London for a protest organised by a Kent scholar demanding the government scraps the moderation of A-level results.

Ophelia Gregory, a former pupil at Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys in Canterbury, decided to hold the demonstration after feeling "completely scammed" by this year's marking system.

With summer exams scrapped, youngsters in Year 13 were graded using scores predicted by their teachers - which were then sent to exam boards to be standardised in a bid to ensure results would be in sync with those from last year.

And this afternoon hundreds of disillusioned young people, who believe the system was unfair, marched through the capital with banners saying "trust our teachers" and "students not stats".

Ms Gregory told KentOnline: "We had a few hundred people turn out. Lots of people came from around Kent, Essex and London.

"There were lots of people who didn’t get into medical school. We had a head teacher and an assistant head from a local school come up and speak.

"Over the past few days people were crying. But I think it's turning into anger now - there was a lot a lot of frustration and shouting at the protest."

The placard-waving protesters gathered in Hyde Park before demonstrating outside Downing Street to voice their displeasure with this year's marks.

Ms Gregory, who is from Ashford, described the "looks of disappointment and all the crying" she witnessed when A-level results were released on Thursday.

She said all those taking part were encouraged to wear face masks and to follow social distancing guidelines.

Their call today was for the government to follow Holyrood's lead in scrapping standardised exam grades.

In a U-turn announced last week, Scotland’s Education Secretary revealed lowered marks would be reverted back to teachers’ estimates, reversing the downgrading of more than 124,000 results.

"All we’re asking for is some common sense, and not some crazy adjustment, because it’s quite clear we’ve been wronged," Ophelia said.

"There are some schools where people who weren't expected to are getting A*s and As because of an algorithm.

"Whereas at Langton Boys and across the country, clever individuals have been utterly scammed.

"It made me really upset. These are real people's lives. This has really done over the individual."

Ophelia said A-levels could have gone ahead this year - either sat online, or with social distancing in place - or that results should have been revealed earlier, to give students disappointed with their outcomes time to make plans or revise for resits.

Another protest, organised by fellow Langton Boys student India Brenchman-Brown, is being held at Whitefriars in Canterbury tomorrow.

They will meet outside Next for speeches, before marching through the city.

Ophelia's concerns echo comments made by her former head teacher Ken Moffat yesterday.

Mr Moffat slammed this year's A-level grading system as "cruel and brutal" as many students' grades plummeted from their initial predictions, leaving them without university places.

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