Schools students who feel they were penalised by the 'unfair' SQA moderation system are set to protest outside the parliament today (Monday 10 August).
The protest is being organised by the same young people who held a protest outside the SQA building in Dalkeith on Friday.
The 'students against classism' protest hopes to make the SQA re-evaluate results in a way that isn't "based on a classist marking scheme."
This year,teachers were told to estimate the grade of children by taking into account the work they had completed so far, and then the SQA "checked and validated" the results.
But data revealed that poorer children had their teacher estimate results for Highers downgraded by the SQA by 15.2%.
A petition from Sarah McLauchlan who is behind the protests currently has 42,572 signatures.
The petition reads: "Teenagers across Scotland have woken up or are awaiting their exam results, in the most unconventional way as they have not actually sat exams.
"However, due to the SQAs approach to tackling this, they have actually created a class divide by basing results off of their schools past exam performance (not the this years students) and their post code.
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"This means thousands of teenagers who may have excelled in their prelims or gotten steady grades all year have had their results deflated - purely because they live in a more deprived area or their school isn’t as privileged as others.
"This is incredibly classist and insulting."
Edinburgh Live will be bringing you live coverage of the protest
