SQA

Despite the claim of consistent marking by the SQA last year, their approach to awarding grades in 2024 involved more significant adjustments to grade boundaries than usual.

This will be the last year that students sit exams under the SQA before it is replaced later this year by a new body called Qualifications Scotland – as long as reforms going through the Scottish Parliament are not further delayed.

Its latest report analyses SQA exam data based on the number of pupils in the cohort, rather than the number which sit the examination.

SQA chief executive Fiona Robertson apologised following complaints from parents and pupils.

The authority has asked the SQA and Royal Mail to look in to how it happened "as a matter of urgency".