Pressure grows on education minister to issue exam marking guidelines after A-level row in England

Sinn Féin's Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: "There are tens of thousands of students that are very worried" about their results. File Picture.

Fresh calls have been made for full transparency around the method being used to standardise thousands of Leaving Cert calculated grades after further controversy with A-level results.

Education officials in England are now facing calls to scrap downgrades, returning instead to teachers’ estimates, after it emerged that 40% of results were marked down by the exam regulator’s algorithm.