A teenager marked down three grades due to the A-Level fiasco has called for Education Secretary Gavin Williamson to be sacked.
Chloe Ray, of Elswick, was predicted straight As, but was devastated to be awarded a D in physics.
That will now be bumped up to an A, after a Government U-turn means grades will be based on teacher's predictions and not a controversial algorithm.
Nationally the algorithm - which used a formula factoring in a school's previous performance - resulted in around 40% of pupils being downgraded by exam regulator Ofqual.
The Education Secretary has now apologised for the "distress" it caused.
However, Chloe said: "I think he should go.
"This wasn't a small blunder, it was a real problem which wasn't handled very well at all."
Students marched on Whitehall at the weekend demanding he quit, while on Monday, some gathered outside his South Staffordshire constituency office.
A Newcastle protest is planned at Grey's Monument on Tuesday.
Monday's apology came just days after Mr Williamson insisted there would be "no U-turn, no change" to student's grades.
The climbdown means GCSE results, due out on Thursday, will also now be based on teacher's predictions.
Locally however, Labour-lead councils have slammed the Government's handling of the exam fiasco.
Newcastle City Council feel many of the city's teenagers will have "spent days worrying for their futures" while a senior Durham County councillor also called for Mr Williamson to go.
For Sacred Heart Sixth Form pupil Chloe, the U-turn means she can finally celebrate the straight As she's spent years working towards.
"I feel great that it has happened, I'm just really happy," said the 18-year-old, although she admitted she had doubts she would get the grade she deserved.
"It has been days of uncertainty about what would happen, and even if they were improved, it was always a case of how 'by how much'."
And Chloe - who is now off to study Film and TV Production at Northumbria University - admits the initial marking system cast a shadow over what should have been one of the happiest days of her life.
"Before I'd opened the results, I'd got a message from the uni saying that I was going to be (on the course), so I thought my grades must have been good," added the teenager, who got A grades in psychology, computer science and AS mathematics.
"So to get a D was a downer, and it overshadowed the success. It feels like a kick in the teeth that you work so hard, not just in the last two years but in the time before that, to get to this point and then because of an algorithm you get told you don't get the grade you deserve."
Her comments follow a chaotic four days since the A-Level grades were published. In his statement on Monday, the Education Secretary claimed he realised over the weekend that "there were unfairnesses within the system".
"It became clearer to me that there were a level… a number of students who were getting grades that frankly they shouldn’t have been getting and should’ve been doing a lot better," he said.
“And the evidence both from Ofqual and other external bodies was apparent that action needed to be taken.
“As we looked in greater detail over Saturday and Sunday it became evident that further action needed to be taken.”
The controversial algorithm used a formula partially based on a school's prior grades. There were accusations, based on results data, that the algorithm favoured fee-paying schools.
Despite the U-turn, it could cause a fresh headache for thousands of students who would have initially feared that they'd missed out on their preferred uni course, on the assumption their grades were not strong enough.
Cllr Paula Holland, Newcastle City Council cabinet member for Education and Skills, said the saga has caused "appalling distress" to those affected.
“Scores of the city’s students have spent days worrying for their futures after being arbitrarily downgraded by the clearly not fit for purpose algorithm used by exam boards under Ofqual’s direction," she said.
“Straight A students may already have missed out on top university places, taken lesser offers or even looked to change what they will study because of this fiasco – all of which potentially has life changing consequences for our young people.
“That teenagers will now see grades that do justice to their academic prowess is obviously welcome, but going forward we need confidence that our exam system is not only rigorous but transparent and fair - a threshold the Government has catastrophically failed to meet in the process of letting down many young people in our city and beyond.”
And Olwyn Gunn, County Durham’s portfolio holder for education, added: "The Minister must do what no other Tory cabinet member seems capable of – apologise and stand down from a post he is not fit to hold.”
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