GCSE top grades fall but remain above pre pandemic levels

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

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[ontherun]

This is a British school? Londistan in full effect

[merlinhotspurs]

All this knowledge but no common sense

[phantom_fox_blue]

It's good to see Africa doing GCSEs. They'll catch up with time.

[unionjackjackson]

Interesting, three years of continuous interruptions to education and the results are better than they were with uninterrupted.

How does that happen exactly? Very suspicious.

[therealryan]

Those students aren't very representative of Britain. I thought representation was important?

Is it not the right type of representation?

[bobbythompson]

Any figures for Northern Ireland, Also Britain!