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21.08.2023 - 08:45 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Students who took their GCSE exams this year won't have to wait much longer to find out their results.
Thousands of students across the country sat their GCSE exams across May and June - and will now be anxious to see how they did. It's the second year students have taken exams in-person, following teacher assessment grades due to the pandemic being awarded in 2020 and 2021.
Exams regulator Ofqual has said a return to pre-pandemic grading means this year’s national GCSE results in England will be lower than last year and similar to levels in 2019 – the year before coronavirus. However protection has been built into the grading process to recognise the disruption that students have faced and to account for work that might be slightly 'weaker' than before the pandemic.
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Ofqual added that exam boards will be required to reward GCSE French and German marks more generously, following a 2019 announcement that better alignment between these subjects and GCSE Spanish would be sought.
GCSE students will find out their results on Thursday August 24. They must go into their school to collect the results in person and this can usually be done from 8am onwards. Unless pre-arranged with your school due to special circumstances, results can't be viewed online.
Last week, A Level students across the country received their results. Some 73,000 fewer top grades were awarded in England, Wales and Northern Ireland than last year as part of efforts to bring results back down to pre-pandemic levels, exam boards said.
But there were around 32,000 more top grades awarded than in 2019. Figures covering GCSE entries from students in
“The cracks in the employers’ walls are getting deeper everyday.”
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