NO A-level students at Brockenhurst College have had their marks boosted in the aftermath of the exam grading scandal.

About 250 students had been anxiously wondering if they would benefit.

But yesterday, the college reported none had been affected. The college had organised for guidance to be in place in case numerous students with improved grades wanted career or higher education advice.

Early indications from colleges across Hampshire could only uncover one student who had a grade changed. The unnamed teenager, at Tauntons College in Southampton, will be getting a letter in the next few days with the good news.

The college had 70 students waiting to hear if they had gone up a grade.

An independent inquiry into the scandal found about 2,000 students nationally needed to have their grades changed - much fewer than was first feared.

Headed by former chief schools inspector Mike Tomlinson, the inquiry found that in some subjects grade boundaries had been moved by as much as 13 marks. But, the effect was too small on many students' papers to change their grade. Only 241 students across the country are said to have missed out on their first choice universities as a result.

In an interim report, the inquiry found that exam boards had felt under pressure from the Qualifications and Curriculum Auth-ority, the exams regulator, to ensure results were in line with last year.