It was a British fiasco, but Prime Minister Boris Johnson termed it a "mutant algorithm". The fiasco is about the exam results of both GCSE and A-level involving millions of pupils. Though both these exams are run and managed by British authorities, it impacts thousands around the world including Bangladesh. According to Dhaka Tribune, this year about 8000 Bangladeshi students received their A-level grades and a similar number of them got International GCSE results. As the COVID-19 pandemic made holding of any examination impossible this year, the results given were based on mathematical calculations, known as algorithm, which caused a national scandal. Hence, PM Johnson, after almost two weeks of silence told pupils at a school, "I am afraid your grades were almost derailed by a mutant algorithm and I know how stressful that must have been.”  Initially, an algorithm was used to determine A-level grades for about 700,000 students this year. But, it was scrapped after nat...