So apparently, the government are due to announce an official u-turn - https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/results-to-follow-teachers-grades-in-exams-u-turn-05zp

So apparently, the government are due to announce an official u-turn - https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/results-to-follow-teachers-grades-in-exams-u-turn-05zp3jvl3 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/results-to-follow-teacher... - and grades will be based on teachers predictions, which, according to the article in the OP's link, should have a .7* correlation with official results from the past. It's still going to prove controversial, but sounds much better than the apparently woolly 40 - 75% accuracy for the OFQUAL algorithm mentioned in the article.