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<strong>A level students have at last admitted their exams are much easier than the really, really hard ones their parents took.</strong>

The school leavers say they didn't actually have to do a stroke of work but still got straight A grades in four subjects.



Parents have long complained that A levels were "much harder" in my day.

It had been assumed the improvement in grades was down to sheer determination and a tireless work ethic of today's school children.

But now they have themselves finally acknowledged that the exams their parents took were near impossible.

"I looked at one chemistry A level paper from 1989," said one 18-year-old who was celebrating four A grades this week.

"I couldn't event understand the question, let alone know where to start answering it."

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Parent Lorraine Fisher, 34, said: "In my day things were very different. These kids don't know how easy they have it."

Teachers do not necessarily agree with the new revelations.

One veteran <a href="https://www.suffolkgazette.com/news/teachers-work-in-pyjamas/">Suffolk geography teacher</a> said: "This is nonsense. The fact is, parents who claim exams are now easier were the ones who messed about at school and scraped through with a D and two E grades.

"We really shouldn't be taking anything away from the hard work today's teenagers have put in."

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