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Ucas Launches Pilot to Improve School Grade Predictions

6/12/2025

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Ucas has unveiled a groundbreaking pilot scheme, delivering tailored reports to more than 1,000 UK schools to enhance the precision of predicted grades. This initiative seeks to bridge the widening gap between predictions and actual results, which has dropped from over 40% in 2014 to approximately 30% in 2024, with a significant impact on disadvantaged students.

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Ucas has unveiled a groundbreaking pilot scheme, delivering tailored reports to more than 1,000 UK schools to enhance the precision of predicted grades. This initiative seeks to bridge the widening gap between predictions and actual results, which has dropped from over 40% in 2014 to approximately 30% in 2024, with a significant impact on disadvantaged students.