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Because opening pubs was the top priority of the government, not holding exams.

Presumably it'd be very difficult to set such an exam because pupils will have missed so much of the normal curriculum.

Why? High schoolers can read books and video chat.

Children from poor backgrounds can't video chat because they don't have access to computers. So that's nonsense.

So instead their grades got nuked for a lifetime. Hurrah!

My brother here in the Netherlands just got his average grade (of the test throughout the year that count toward the final grade) for each subject as final grade, which seems like it's fair enough.

This UK government did away with most coursework and also with sitting half of the papers in your penultimate year, half the next. Against the guidance of most universities and schools. And setting themselves up for this.

The problem is that they were all told no exams would take place and exam prep from schools largly stopped due to the schools being physically closed.