'A big part of our lives is out of our hands': The fears of 2020 A-Level students

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Three teenagers from Saffron Walden County High School have been talking to ITV News Anglia about the devastation Covid-19 has had on their education.

Next month the students will receive their A-level results- without having actually sat the exams- after they barely had a days notice to leave school in March.

It's just one of the many rites of passage lost by the generation which has come of age in the Covid Crisis.

Jackson Priest, who is 17, has been at the same school since he was four years old.  He found leaving with barely a day's notice, and no year book or any ceremony to mark the closure, a bewildering experience.

Even more than the emotional upheaval, the students are deeply worried about their exam results.  Their grades will be based on teachers' predictions which are then subjected to calculations by examination boards of the likely number of top grades across the country, compared to previous years. It means some students will drop a grade, never having had a chance to prove themselves in an exam.

Student Jess Hancock has accepted an offer from Oxford University, which is dependent on her A level results.  She says she will not be able to accept the unfairness if she misses her place this way.

The headteacher of Saffron Walden County High, Caroline Derbyshire says staff are acutely aware of all this generation of sixth formers have missed.

She says the school will plead the case of any students who miss out on their grades this way and is hoping that universities will be flexible.  But she says there is little anyone can do about the emotional fallout of ending your school career this way.

For students already at university when Covid hit, the pandemic has punched a big hole in their degrees.

For students already at university, lockdown has meant a different sort of disruption.  Alice Murray was devastated to miss her final year and exams at Cambridge university.

Covid 19 has affected every generation differently, but for those coming of age in the pandemic, the impact on their opportunities and life experiences is profound.

For a full interview with UCAS - including advice for students- click below