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A BTEC exam board run by a transnational education privateer has said it is “very sorry” that some students are still waiting for their results two days after they were due.
Hundreds of thousands of students received their A-level, BTec and T-level exam results on Thursday, but some in England and Wales who studied for BTec qualifications have had no news of their grades from exam board Pearson.
Francesca, 19, from Lancashire, said the delay has caused her even more stress at an already a difficult time.
She followed an applied science course with Pearson and needs two merits and a pass to be accepted to study human physiology at Manchester Metropolitan University.
She said: “It definitely is stressful. I’m autistic, so was already struggling with waiting for results and preparing to get ready for university, so it definitely has made the pressure worse.”
Labour spokesman Toby Perkins accused the government of going into hiding over the results problem, saying: “It is now almost three days after A-level and T-level results were published and students are still being let down.”
Pearson claimed that there is no “systemic issue” to blame for the delay and that only “a tiny percentage” of students are still waiting for their results.
