Tens of thousands of A-level pupils may miss out on first choice university

University admissions will be ‘hardest in living memory’ after government asked regulators to set grade boundaries

Tens of thousands of A-level ­students are at risk of losing a place at their preferred university next week after new analysis found a sharp fall in top grades compared with last year.

Amid warnings that this year’s admissions round would be “the hardest in living memory”, research suggests a fall of 10 percentage points in the number of A and A* grades in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, following the reintroduction of exams this summer.

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