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 ...

The GCSE results for 2023 are out and, as predicted, the number of top grades has fallen from last year but is higher than before the Covid-19 pandemic, national figures show. As grading returns to ...

12:52, Thu, Aug 22, 2024 Updated: 12:53, Thu, Aug 22, 2024 It is results day and 16-year-olds across the country are setting off to school to see how well they did on their GCSEs. Article continues ...

If you've been used to the old GCSE system of A* grades and below, you might not know what a 9, a 6, or (let's hope not) a 1 is all about. Education reforms in England began in 2011, led by ...

Colleges in England are demanding a review of an "exceptional and unfair grade boundary increase" in an English language GCSE exam designed for resit students. They say an 11-mark increase of the ...

The GCSE pass rate in England has increased to 79% from 70% The key subjects of English and maths saw steep grade rises in England Most GCSE pupils have not received in-school lessons since March and ...

Hundreds of thousands fewer top GCSE grades were handed out to teenagers this year following efforts to bring results back down to pre-pandemic levels. Official figures also show disparities in ...

Just over half a million 16-year-olds in the UK will collect their eagerly awaited GCSE results today – just as they have done for the last quarter of a century. The difference this year is that for ...

A record rise in GCSE retakes is expected as tougher grading is predicted to lead to 75,000 pupils failing English and maths. Thousands of students in England face misery today when results are ...