GCSE results day 2024: Celebrations at Cambridgeshire schools
Thousands of pupils across Cambridgeshire will find out their GCSE results today.
Nationally, the proportion of GCSE entries awarded top grades has fallen from last year but is higher than before the Covid-19 pandemic, figures show.
More than a fifth (21.8 per cent) of UK GCSE entries were awarded the top grades – at least a 7 or an A grade – this year, down 0.2 percentage points on last year when 22.0% of entries achieved the top grades.
This is higher than the equivalent figure for 2019 – before the pandemic disrupted schooling – of 20.8 per cent.
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The figures, published by the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ), cover GCSE entries from students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said: “These pupils have shown remarkable resilience and determination, defying unprecedented disruption throughout the pandemic, Raac and strike action.”
Nearly 373,000 vocational and technical qualification (VTQ) results have also been awarded to pupils.
Sir Ian Bauckham, chief regulator of Ofqual, said: “Consistent, rigorous standards of grading are producing consistent results. It is evidence that we have settled back into a pattern of dependable and trustworthy results.”
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