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\r\nThis year is going to be interesting. The exam boards have fucked up royally, giving students lower grades than they should have received, because of pressure that A-levels are now too easy. So now nobody knows whether they got rejected when they shouldn't have because of mark-fixing, or whether they got accepted when they shouldn't have because the exams were too easy. Meanwhile, all the universities are already full, so the argument is pretty much academic (no pun intended). I'll be interested to see if this year's crop of freshers will be dumber than last year's :-)","updated",["D",1032497582000],"created",["D",1032497582000],"codename","top_of_the_mornin_to_ye_ive_been_browsing_freshmeat_a_lot_recently_word_to_the_clueless_its","legacy_id","2610","thumbnailUrl","published",["D",1032497582000],"draft",false,"actionData","errors"]

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