the official figures, the the officialfigures, the hard numbers coming out on gcses and around about half an hour. if you have already got the results in your household, i hope you have done 0k, household, i hope you have done ok, i hope you got what you wanted. if you haven t, we are going to be there for you this morning. let s get the latest news headlines. hundreds of thousands of gcse students in england, wales and northern ireland will receive their grades this morning. the marking in england has been designed to bring the proportion of top grades back down to pre pandemic levels. there s huge speculation about the cause of yesterday s plane crash in russia that is presumed to have killed the head of the wagner mercenary group, yevgeny prigozhin. he s been named by russia s aviation agency as a passenger on the private jet, but the kremlin has not confirmed his death. mr prigozhin led a failed mutiny against russia s military leaders it is two months since he led a rebellion agai
cut immigration and stop the boats. mark easton, our home editor. it s results day for hundreds of thousands of gcse students in england, wales and northern ireland and the number of passes has fallen for a second year running. 68.2% of exams were marked at grade 4 that s a c grade. that s a fall from the last two years and closer to where we were before the pandemic in 2019. our correspondent zoe conway has the details. the look on her face says it all. she got the gcse results she was hoping for. ifeel relieved, ifeel happy that it is done. i m scared for the next chapter, but to have the results in front of me is, like, really good, and to know that my hard work paid off is, like, really good. there has been a drop in the proportion of students getting top grades compared to last year. however, more are getting top marks today than they were before covid struck. you can feel the excitement in the hall today. everybody, their parents, and most of all the students are very excited.
this is for real. the feeling of it like, on the day will be way different, because like a mock s a mock, like it s not the real thing. grades will be gently managed back down close to pre pandemic levels. it had to happen eventually, maybe a little bit nerve racking that our year is the first year. it s going to be fair in terms of the results we get, but when you compare it to other years, with their grades, it s not going to be as fairas theiryears. what s the most important thing for you in terms of fairness this year? yes, i think that everyone getsj the grades that they have been putting in the work for and that like after all this disruption - that we can still manage to get like good grades. | key information, key ideas we will pull out from. last minute revision for gcse students. the school has put on extra lessons all year for teenages who went all year for teenagers who went through lockdowns and then the long
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