The news comes as more than 45, 000 pupils prepare to resit their GCSE English exams.

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Instead, students will be given an extra chance to resit the GCSE next month.

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Instead, students would be given an extra chance to resit the GCSE.

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More than 45, 000 students are to resit their English GCSEs next month after a row about grades, figures given to the BBC by exam boards show.

BBC: Thousands of pupils to resit English GCSEs

Pupils from England, Wales and Northern Ireland were offered the chance to resit the papers free of charge after the row over the moving of grade boundaries.

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It is unlikely to happen before more than 45, 000 students resit their English GCSEs next month - about one in 14 of those who took the exam in June.

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Reducing resit opportunities would disadvantage pupils and the government seemed determined "to reduce the A-level to an elite university entrance exam" rather than a qualification for all young people, she added.

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The regulator insisted it would be inappropriate for either of the sets of exams to be regraded and students would be given an extra chance to resit the GCSE in November.

BBC: Thousands of pupils to resit English GCSEs

Other features, such as their being taken at the end of two years of study rather than in stages, and a cut in resit opportunities, have already been brought in under coalition changes to existing GCSEs.

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