There has been a slight increase in the GCSE pass rate and the percentage of top grades this year, despite concerns about the difficulty of exams. The pass rate edged up to 67.3% in England ...

Top GCSE grades have fallen from last year but remain ... this year – a drop of 0.6 percentage points, but higher than 67.3% ...

GCSE results are up significantly on last year ... results day rituals put on hold Revised A-level results showed 41.3% of grades were A* and A, compared to 29.9% when results were released ...

Some university courses, for example nursing, midwifery, police sciences, medicine, dentistry or teacher training, require a grade 4, 5 or 6 in Maths and English at GCSE, or equivalent.

This is down from 68.2 per cent last year but higher than 67.3 per cent in 2019 ... to ensure that roughly one in five ...

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