Last year, more than a quarter (26.3%) of UK GCSE entries were awarded top grades, compared with 28.9% in 2021 and 26.2% in 2020
Teenagers across the country are waking up to their GCSE results in a year when the proportion of top grades awarded is expected to fall. Hundreds of thousands of pupils in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are receiving grades to help them progress to sixth form, college or training.
. In 2019 – the year before the pandemic – around one in five entries in England, Wales and Northern Ireland were awarded a 7/A or above. In England, exams regulator Ofqual has said this year’s GCSE results will be lower than last year and they would be similar to those in 2019. Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said it was “likely” that sixth forms and colleges could lower their entry requirements for this year’s cohort of students.
Bill Watkin, chief executive of the Sixth Form Colleges Association , said it was “possible” that some sixth forms and colleges will lower the GCSE grades required for entry compared with last year. Education Secretary Gillian Keegan said: “This cohort has shown tremendous resilience in recent years and should be proud of all the work they’ve done to reach this milestone. Grading is returning to normal which means a pupil who would have achieved a grade 4 before the pandemic is just as likely to achieve that this year.”
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