Teenagers should be awarded GCSE scores rather than grades, the international exams group Cambridge Assessment says.

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Cambridge Assessment, which runs three English exam boards, said its new tool would send a message that cheating is not tolerated.

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Indeed, research by exams group Cambridge Assessment found three A grades at A-level was achieved by 17.5% of students in 2009.

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Cambridge Assessment, which runs the OCR exam board, found many lecturers believed students arrived unprepared for degree-level work, with three-in-five academics running catch-up classes.

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