The 2024 GCSE results are out on Thursday (August 22), with students anxiously waiting to see if their grades will be good enough to qualify for sixth form or college. Year 11 pupils in England, Wales ...

GCSE pass rates have risen this year, as the government rolled out huge changes to the grading system in England. More than one-fifth of pupils were awarded top marks, with 20.5% taking home either a ...

Top GCSE grades have dropped slightly this summer but are still higher than pre-pandemic levels. The share of GCSE entries across England, Wales and Northern Ireland awarded a grade 7 or above – ...

Pupils in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will receive their GCSE and Level 2 vocational and technical qualification (VTQ) results on Thursday. The results will help them progress to sixth form, ...

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Pupils are celebrating another top grades bonanza as one in five GCSE entries got at least a grade 7 or A following a rise on last year. For England, the proportion is the highest since 2012 outside ...

Hundreds of thousands of students are receiving their GCSE results following a U-turn on grading – but Btec pupils will have to wait for their grades amid last-minute changes. Teenagers in England, ...

Employers are confused by the new GCSE grading system as a quarter think the bottom grade is the best mark, a survey has found. More than one in five employers incorrectly thought that 1 was the top ...

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A teenager’s passionate post about how the government’s new GCSE grading system has put so much pressure on students they are “crying in the toilets” and “breaking down in the middle of a lesson” has ...

Students in England and Wales who took GCSE exams in November will receive their results on Thursday. In England, most students who took exams in November will have been resitting English or maths.