This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation with James O'Brien.

Three minutes after saying, congratulations to you and indeed to yours, if you've received your GCFC results this morning and you are happy with them.

I think it might be worth explaining one little thing that we've learned together in the aftermath of the A-level debacle.

And that is why the reliance upon centre assessed grades or teacher predictions will deliver a higher average than in previous years.

I felt this was a real penny drop moment last week actually because the key words in this

equation are capability and performance. Probably just me, is it? Is no one else excited?

I just love getting my head around stuff.

You know what I mean?

You stare and stare and stare at something.

And then finally, the penny drops and it all makes sense.

The analogy I used to use, which I had to stop using,

because all it ever elicited from my younger colleagues

was faces that were even blanker than usual. But the analogy I

used to use was with those magic eye illusions. Do you know that it's like a page of squiggles,

apparently random squiggles. And if you got your field of vision right, and you stared at it in just

the right way, then quite a detailed image would emerge from this apparently random page

of squiggles. There might be a steam train or a lion or a motor car or something like that. And I had

one of those experiences. It was a bit like that. It was a magic eye moment when a teacher explain.

Because if you want to learn about education, I always find it's quite a good idea to speak to teachers.

I'm weird like that. I mean, you might prefer to speak to some weirdo from a think tank or a daily mail columnist, but me, I'd just like to talk to teachers.

And it was explained that, of course, when you assess a pupil's likely grade, you do so on the understanding that all things will be

equal on the day. In other words, they'll be in a good place on the day of the exam and they'll

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