...oh... and one other point if I may...
"Statistical standardisation" is water-under-the-bridge. It's happening now; there's nothing anyone can do to change it. And it is possible that some people will be treated unfairly - for example, bright students in otherwise weak schools, and students in schools with small cohorts, for which the statistics are very wobbly.
But because Ofqual and the SQA haven't declared how all this will work, we don't know whether or not these unfairnesses will in fact happen. They might; they might not; we don't know, and we won't know until all the results are announced in August.
Something we do know, though, is that - as currently planned - there will be no appeal (or rather, the only appeals to be allowed are on very narrow, technical, grounds). So, if some candidates are treated unfairly, it's doubly unfair: one kick in the teeth is the unfairness of the awarded grade, followed up by a second kick of not being allowed to appeal.
So the thing we can, and should, kick up a big fuss about - now - is to get the appeals process changed, whilst there is still time, and in principle, the opportunity to change it.
This works nicely in 'both directions'. If, when we all find out in August, everything is seen to be fair, the appeals process will not be used, so it doesn't matter if it is 'more liberal'. But if the awards are not fair, a 'more liberal' appeals process will be of enormous benefit.
So let's get this fixed. For example, lobby MPs, and send evidence to Parliament's Education Select Committee's Inquiry into the Impact of Covid-19 on Education and Children's Services committees.parliament.uk/work/202/the-impact-of-covid19-on-education-and-childrens-services/.
Even better - does Marcus Radford have a brother or sister sitting an exam this year?