GCSE results: Students find out grades as thousands more hit by Btec delays
It comes as efforts to curb grade inflation kick in
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Students have picked up GCSE results while thousands more were hit with delays to Btecs grades.
The pass rate and proportion of top grades dropped in GCSEs this year as efforts to crack down grade inflation kicked in.
But as hundreds of thousands found out their results on Thursday, an exam board said around 5,700 students had been deemed ineligible to get grades in another qualification.
”We need to work with schools and college to resolve queries, run eligibility checks and confirm if the student still wishes to claim a grade,” a spokesperson for Pearson said. “We apologise to any student waiting for a result.”
It came a week after other pupils faced delays in getting results from the same awarding body.
In other exam news, London came out on top in England for GCSE results. Around 32 per cent of grades in the capital were the highest marks, compared to 22 per cent in other regions - including Yorkshire and the North East.
ICYMI: Oldest person to pass GCSE in Britain
A sprightly pensioner has become the oldest person in Britain to ever pass a GCSE exam - at the grand age of 92.
Alice Murphy reports:
‘Sprightly’ pensioner becomes oldest person to pass a GCSE exam
Derek Skipper, 92, took his Maths GCSE in May and has passed with flying colours
‘You’ve come through the toughest couple of years'
GCSE students get a well done from TV presenters Ant and Dec:
Starmer congratulates GCSE students
Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, has also tweeted his congratulations:
Schools need recovery plan over regional attainment gap, charity says
Schools are in urgent need of a recovery plan after the attainment gap in top GCSE grades between the north and south of England widened, an educational charity has said.
Read more here:
Call for urgent schools recovery plan as GCSE results see north-south gap grow
Schools North East said this year’s results can be seen as a ‘map’ of the impact of the pandemic on students and schools.
GCSE results day in pictures
Teenagers across the UK are celebrating after receiving their GCSE results.
Take a look at some of the best pictures here:
In Pictures: Youngsters celebrate GCSE results
It had been expected that grades would drop below last year.
Student who swam Channel for Ukrainian refugees gets top marks
A GCSE student who swam the Channel between exam papers to raise money for refugee children from Ukraine has achieved top grades in her results.
Full story:
GCSE student swam Channel during exams to raise money for Ukrainian refugees
Rose Owens, 15, a year 11 pupil at Roedean School, near Brighton, Sussex, got one 8 and the rest 9s despite training for the swim during her exams.
ICYMI: GCSE grades fall from Covid record high in crackdown on grade inflation
GCSE grades have fallen from an all-time high during the Covid pandemic as efforts to curb grade inflation kicked into force.
Both the overall pass rate and proportion of top grades have dropped this year, according to official figures.
Full story:
GCSE grades fall from Covid record high in crackdown on grade inflation
Both pass rate and percentage of top grade drops
ICYMI: Pensioner reveals GCSE result live on air
A 92-year-old revealed his maths GCSE result on air to BBC Breakfast’s presenters.
Watch on Independent TV:
GCSE Results: 92-year-old pensioner reveals maths result on air
A 92-year-old has revealed his maths GCSE result on air to BBC Breakfast’s presenters on Thursday, 25 August.Derek Skipper took a free maths course offered by his local authority that he first took in 1946, just after the Second World War.“I was a little bit worried last night, because now I knew I was coming on camera I thought, boy oh boy it’s going to be a short interview if I’ve failed,” Skipper said.The pensioner announced he was “delighted” to have gotten the highest mark possible in his exam.Sign up for our newsletters.
Full story: Thousands more hit by Btec delays
An exam board has apologised to students after thousands were deemed ineligible to be awarded grades on Thursday, a week after other pupils faced delays in getting results from the same awarding body.
Read here:
Thousands more BTec students hit by delays as exam board apologises
Pearson said some 5,700 students registered for the qualification were currently ineligible to receive their grade
That’s all from us for today - thanks for following and congratulations to everyone who got their results.
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