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Many BTec students will not receive their results today Image caption: Many BTec students will not receive their results today

An 18-year-old BTec student from Flint has said she was "distraught" not to find out her exam results today following a Pearson exam board announcement that it would regrade them.

Elle Kidd told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast it had caused her "unnecessary stress" and she can not confirm her place to study Level 3 at college next year.

She was due to get her BTec results today for her Level 2 travel and tourism course at Coleg Cambria, near Wrexham.

"To have released it [the announcement of regrading] the night before seems a little unnecessary and has panicked me and a lot of people.

"A lot of us found out about it on social media or on the news.

"I was quite distraught because I wasn’t sure what was going to happen, especially about confirming places for next year."

WJEC said students for its version of BTecs - known as entry pathways - would receive their grades as scheduled.