And some are laid on already: health care, for instance, is provided at the discretion of doctors, few of whom are sticklers for the correct papers.

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Earlier Clive Lewis, QC for AQA, said the board had followed official guidelines in deciding to alter the grade boundaries between the January and June papers and was satisfied that the June results were correct.

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