Hundreds of thousands of teenagers across the country received their GCSE exam results on Thursday.
The proportion of GCSE entries awarded top grades has fallen from last year but is higher than before the Covid-19 pandemic, national figures show.
The proportion of entries getting at least a 4 or a C grade – considered a “standard pass” – has fallen from 73.2% in 2022 to 68.2% this year – a drop of five percentage points, but higher than 67.3% in 2019.In England, exams regulator Ofqual said this year’s GCSE results would be lower than last year and they would be similar to those in 2019.
Girls continued their lead over boys for the top GCSE grades, with 24.9% of entries awarded 7/A or above compared with 19.1% for males – a gap of 5.8 percentage points. While traditional A*-G grades are used in Northern Ireland and Wales, in England these have been replaced with a 9-1 system, where 9 is the highest.Business studies has seen the biggest jump in entries among major subjects this year – up 14.8% on last year – while Spanish entries have increased by 11.3% compared with 2022.
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