A-Level algorithms and the Manchester student who 'fell into' her own story about it
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA Manchester teenager said she 'fell into' a story she had written when she was rejected from her first choice of university.Jess Johnson, 18, won an award for writing a dystopian fiction about an algorithm that sorted students into bands based on class.But she said it was 'ironic' to find out that her grades were not what she expected after exams were cancelled this year.Jess, a student at Ashton Sixth Form College in Greater Manchester, needed an A in English to earn a place at St Andrews.But she was downgraded from her predicted A to a B - putting the £16,000 scholarship she had achieved at risk.She said she had undertaken lots of extra-curricular work to try and secure her place, which included writing 'A Band Apart'.“I wrote about the.
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