Islamabad: Pakistan has entered in the list of those aggrieved countries which have rejected the CAIE grading formula for O/ A level exam 2020, terming it as an extremely unfair and demanded of the Cambridge University London to look into this serious issue for fair treatment to its students. Federal minister for Education, Shafqat Mahmood, confirmed taking the case of unfair grades awarded to Pakistani students with the Cambridge University in his tweet dated August 12, 2020. The minister in his tweet given in reply to a tweet of an aggrieved mother said “ After protest of the parents and students, we have taken-up the issue of unfair grades with the Cambridge University and hope it will take remedial measures”. The aggrieved mother had raised the issue with the federal minister in her tweet and demanded him to take the issue with the Cambridge University for award of fair grades to his son and other aggrieved students. The Cambridge University had postponed O/A level exams scheduled for June this year in COVID-19 pandemic scenario and decided to award grades to the students on the basis of a vague formula, carrying weightage to the assessments of the teachers of the schools and performance of the students in previous CAIE exams. Instead following a grading formula based on a clear and fair assessment, The Cambridge University kept the schools and teachers in the dark. The university itself seemed confused on the issue as it made many contradictory statements on the subject in hand, making the schools administrations and students even more confused till the last day of announcement of result– August 11, 2020. Most of the schools in Pakistan had concerns even over the formula of teachers’ assessment and previous performance of the students. These aggrieved schools quoted past results in support of their argument, which showed that majority of the Pakistani students performed better in the final years’ exam and they ought to be compensated on the same basis in the assessed result of O/ A level exams of 2020. The Cambridge University brushed aside such concerns and instead treating O/A level students fairly penalized them by down grading the results for this year. Pakistani students are in shock over CAIE result. They could not believe that they could be penalized by the Cambridge University by downgrading their grades for a natural calamity– COVID-19. A student of A level of Beaconhouse School System Islamabad, who bagged distinction in As exam 2019 in Physic, has been given B grade for assessed A level exam 2020. This single result raised many questions on credibility of assessed grades formula. Is it fair?. One do ask a question to itself. Would such a brilliant student who got distinction in As would have got B grade in A level exam if it had held? . Answer is big No. The shocked parents and students are left with no other option, but to stage protest outside their respective schools in Pakistan for what they call ‘punishment’ in the name of grades. After receiving the result on phone on August 11, the parents are also protesting to the teachers. These aggrieved parents are convinced that the teachers did not plead the case of their kids with the Cambridge University for fair treatment in grading for final exam 2020. The case of Beaconhouse School System Islamabad is extremely painful as its administration is not ready to listen to the aggrieved parents. “We are helpless” is the only sentence that Beaconhouse System System administration is delivering to the worried parents who want them to take the case of unfair grades to their kids with the Cambridge University and seek remedy for them. “The behavior of Beaconhouse School System administration on unfair grades of my son for A level is absolutely irresponsible and I cannot believe it” , Tahira Latif, an aggrieved mother of an A level Beaconhosue School System Islamabad student said in her comments sent to NEWSMAN. In Pakistan, O/A level students are always at loss. They face deduction of 5 percent in marks at equivalence level and hence face huge disadvantage as compared to HSC students. But this year they will face double disadvantage for entry in professional educational institutions like medical colleges and engineering universities as the government has already granted 3 percent extra marks to HSC students over their last year result. In the given scenario, unfair grades of the Cambridge University could certainly make future of many of O/A level students bleak.