Summer 2017 A levels - are the results going to drop with the new exams?

[badbadhusky]

Just watching BBC News do the nightly review of the papers' front covers. They've been discussing a piece from either the Sunday Times or the Telegraph about the exam regulator stepping in to prevent a large downward move in grades. Are we being softened up for a big 'correction' downwards when the results are published next week?

beyond maybe employers (UK at least) getting to grips with it, any significant downsides to it. GPA seems, and I post from a position of almost complete ignorance so nothing new there a fairly reasonable approach

Did / Does Gove like it. Perhaps that should be the acid test