# ­xkcd thread

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** comic-strips\
**Created:** [May 28, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574 "2020-05-28T00:57:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/135 "2020-08-20T14:15:24Z")

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Perhaps the cartoonist for the Telegraph reads xkcd.

[![](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2020/08/19/BOB200820_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqZpU5gVubpbxv1jqCXlzJreaD42_m2-pR0gKHCq3FeYY.jpg) ](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2020/08/19/BOB200820_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqZpU5gVubpbxv1jqCXlzJreaD42_m2-pR0gKHCq3FeYY.jpg)

That’s about the grades fiasco in the UK:

> [@Can someone explain the A Level and GCSE scandal in the U.K.?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-the-a-level-and-gcse-scandal-in-the-u-k/918325):
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> I understand what the tests are from a previous GQ thread, but what is the current scandal all about? It seems like every news story starts in the middle and assumes I already know the background. Did the scoring system change? Some sort of weird Covid adjustment?

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