The proportion of GCSE entries awarded top grades has risen from last year but fewer GCSE entries scored a decent pass this year, national figures show. Students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland ...

GCSE resits for English and Maths could be scrapped after the pass rate fell to its lowest level in a decade. The current model requires students who fail these two core subjects at GCSE level to ...

London students have continued to score the best GCSE results in the country despite the capital seeing the largest increase in the number of teenagers failing to get a decent pass. Hundreds of ...

As over one million students receive their GCSE results, Sky News has found gender and factors linked to deprivation remain troubling predictors of students' performance. Overall GCSE grades are ...

THOUSANDS of pupils scored top GCSE results despite starting secondary school when Covid shut classrooms - as more older teens than ever were forced into resits. This year’s 16-year-olds were the ...

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The Government is considering scrapping compulsory English and maths resits at GCSE level. Pupils who fail these subjects at GCSE, aged 16, are made to resit them if they stay on for sixth form, since ...

Students in the region have been celebrating their GCSE results today, with the class of 2025 here in the North East having plenty of reasons to smile. Along with their families, the nervous pupils ...

Today’s GCSE results reveal that music has one of the highest increases in uptake, of any subject in 2025. More than 38,000 students took GCSE music in 2025, an increase of 6.1% compared to 2024. In ...

Thousands of teenagers across Leicestershire lined up at at their schools today to find out their GCSE results. After years of hard work and dedication, students across the county found out how they ...

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Top GCSE grades in Wales have risen slightly, overall results published today show. As thousands of teenagers across Wales got their GCSE results there was a 3% fall in entries this year compared to ...