"Uncertainty" looms over A-Level results day in Herefordshire and Worcestershire
We've been speaking to the principal of Hereford Sixth Form College
There's "a lot more uncertainty" with A-level exam results this year as students get ready to get their grades.
They've been determined my teacher's estimates instead of exams which were cancelled because of the pandemic.
A combination of coursework, mock exams and essays have been used by teachers to decide grades.
Peter Cooper, principal at Hereford Sixth Form College, said: "There's an increased anxiety and concern amongst students this year.
"And indeed a concern that the system itself should be a fair one for them so that they can feel that there's a fairness in the outcome.
"It feels as if people have been travelling on a road but perhaps without a known destination and a rather rocky terrain of that road."
Students have completed most of the academic year learning online after schools were shut due to the pandemic.
Last year results were initially based on an algorithm after exams were cancelled.
However the Government did a U-turn after public outcry over the disparity between grades from students at public schools, which were downgraded, and private schools which saw grades increased.
Peter Cooper added: "Is there a better system? Well I think in this current scenario it's hard to determine.
"But that key decision not to have any reference to the past, I understand why it was made but whether it was the right one through eh rear view mirror is only going to be judged in time.
"I do think though our students are as well prepared as they would have been had they received time learning in the classroom."