Oxford reject seeks £100,000
'A prospective Oxford student will become the first to sue his A Level exam board after a regrade lost him his place at the University.
Tom Hill, a 19-year-old former student of Marlborough College, Wiltshire, was offered a place at Oxford to study History.
He is now seeking £100,000 compensation from The Oxford, Cambridge & RSA Exam Board (OCR), after he was rejected for failing to meet his AAA offer.
Hill has accused OCR, which has been at the centre of the recent A-Level grade-fixing scandal, of failing to mark his English and History papers 'honestly or competently.'
He only received B grades in English and History, after one of his History modules was marked U, and after OCR slashed the marks for English across the board by 8%.
Considering English and History to have been his 'best subjects', he blames OCR for his lower than expected grades, which have consequently dashed his hopes of going to Oxford this year.
He plans to reapply next year, but in the meantime he feels that legal action is "the only option."
17th Oct 2002