results today is, yes, the return to examinations, albeit with a number of adaptations reflecting the disruption young people have faced over the past couple of years so results are higher than they were when we last had exams in 2019, but lower than under teacher assessed grades in 2021. while some may look enviously at those receiving higher teacher assessed grades in 2020 and 2021, additional help was given this year as well. grade boundaries were set more generously than in 2019 and advanced exam content information sheets were available for some subjects to compensate for disruption. here is what this year s gcse figures look like. 73.2% of gcses were marked at grade four or above in england, the broad equivalent of c or above. in wales and northern ireland, this is down from 77.1% last year but much higher than 2019 when the figure was 67.3%. those achieving top grades of seven or above in england, or a or a in wales and northern ireland, fell to 26.3% from 28.9% last year.
denby high school. it has been very - denby high school. it has been very noisy here, starting to quieten down a bit. what is interesting the pupils don t need to come in to get the results, they can get them online but such is the excitement that i want to be here aamong their friends to find out they have done. the pass rate is lower this year, but it is still lower than the peak thatis but it is still lower than the peak that is the say, but it is still higher than normal, so normal was backin higher than normal, so normal was back in 2019, so ijust tell you what the statistics are in terms of pass rates. overall 73.2% of gcses were marked at grades four or c at above this year, that is down from 77.1% last year, when grades of course were decided by teacher, exams weren t sat. it is still significantly hiring than before the pandemic in 2019, a was the last year exams were set before covid struck and the rate was 67.3%. the results of vocational and technical
this is the first year since 2019, before the pandemic, that traditional exams have taken place. fewer have achieved top marks compared with the previous two years when teacher assessments determined grades but that, says the government, was the plan. what we are seeing these results today is, yes, the return to examinations, albeit with a number of adaptations reflecting the disruption young people have faced over the past couple of years so results are higher than they were when we last had exams in 2019, but lower than under teacher assessed grades in 2021. while some may look enviously at those receiving higher teacher assessed grades in 2020 and 2021, additional help was given this year as well. grade boundaries were set more generously than in 2019 and advanced exam content information sheets were available for some subjects to compensate for disruption. here is what this year s gcse figures look like. 73.2% of gcses were marked at grade four or above in england, the broad equiva
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any time soon. hugo bachega, in ukraine. hundreds of thousands of students in england, wales and northern ireland are getting their results for the first gcse exmas in three years. all the pass rate for this year s gcses has fallen since 2021, but remains higher than 2019. 0verall, 73.2% of gcses were marked at grades 4 or c and above this year down from 77.1% last year, when grades were decided by teachers. it is still significantly higher than in 2019, the last year exams were physically sat before covid, when it was 67.3%. results for vocational and technical awards are also being released, though some btec pupils could face delays. my colleague, martine croxall who got