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| Judge orders urgent hearing of GCSE English challenge | Judge orders urgent hearing of GCSE English challenge |
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| A judge has ordered an urgent hearing of a legal challenge over this summer's GCSE English results. | A judge has ordered an urgent hearing of a legal challenge over this summer's GCSE English results. |
| An alliance of pupils, schools and councils had lodged papers asking for a judicial review at London's High Court. | |
| The case centres on last-minute shifts in grade boundaries in June's exams. | |
| The judge decided the case for a judicial review should be heard in open court, after privately considering the merits of the application. | |
| If permission to seek a judicial review is granted, then a two day court hearing will be held immediately. The hearing is expected within weeks. | |
| Almost 400 individual cases are involved in the mass challenge. | |
| Last month the alliance served court documents on England's exams regulator, Ofqual, and two exam boards, AQA and Edexcel. | |
| The news comes as more than 45,000 pupils prepare to resit their GCSE English exams. |