Teachers were left angry after A-level grades were lower than their predictions.

Head of College at Plume Academy, Maldon said 'It should not be this hard' for students to get the results they deserve.

Across the country students were given lower grades than expected, despite teachers submitting their predictions.

In England, 36% of entries had a lower grade than teachers predicted and 3% were down two grades.

Head of College at Plume Academy in Maldon, Chris Barton said: "I think it’s a mixed set of results, some students have done as they should have and some have done worse.

"But anyone that applied for Uni is into their first choice- that’s about 60 to 65 students out of 130.

"If the government wanted to do anything they could have looked at their GCSE results, it wouldn’t have been that hard and it should not be this hard.

"The whole point is that some want to to university, some want to go into apprenticeships, some want to go travelling and our job is to support and guide them.

"I am doing a job I love, for me it’s the equivalent of getting paid to play football.

"The students are starting to take responsibilities for themselves and now they are by appealing their results and that makes me proud."

Plume Academy headteacher Carl Wakefield said: "Whilst the academy, every Mid-Essex secondary school and schools the length and breadth of the country adopted a meticulous approach over a ten week period to produce their own Centre Assessed Grades, ultimately, the examination boards applied their own calculations to generate final student grades in each of their subjects.

"Therefore, none of the usual benchmark data or any usual comparisons between schools has any validity whatsoever this year.

"The vast majority have automatically secured what they need to progress onto the next stage of their education, employment or training, there were a number whose grades we will be looking at appealing once the Government fully clarify as to how we can pursue this whilst potentially incorporating their mock examination outcomes.

"We will be doing this as it is imperative that all of our students fully secure what they worked so hard to achieve as well as what they deserve.

"It is also what the Secretary of State for Education and the Prime Minister himself have promised since the day the examinations were cancelled without notice and the bottom line is that they need to fulfil these promises."