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 students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will receive their results on Thursday 21 August. In England, GCSEs are graded using a numerical system from 9 to 1. They were previously used an A ...

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 – ...

Hundreds of thousands more teenagers are expected to be told they have failed one or more of their GCSEs on Thursday as the “exams reset” takes effect. It’s estimated there will be 325,000 fewer ...

Thousands of nervous students across the UK are about to discover their GCSE ad BTEC results today - but how does the grading system work? While lots of us remember the traditional A*-C grading system ...

The countdown is on for GCSE results day. This is the moment when pupils across the UK will find out whether they've got the grades they are hoping for. Unlike A-levels, GCSEs are graded in numbers ...

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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 ...

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 ...