How good is your child’s GCSE grade?
Some 800,000 16-year-olds across England, Wales and Northern Ireland received their GCSE results on Thursday morning.
In summer 2024’s exam session, 21.8 per cent of candidates received top grades – either a 7/A or above – down slightly from 22 per cent last year.
Grading had fully returned to normal in 2023, after alternative methods of assessment in place during the pandemic in 2020 and 2021, and adjusted marking in 2022, all resulted in controversial grade inflation. This is the first time two subsequent post-pandemic years can be fairly compared.
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Pupils who took other modern languages achieved the highest share of grades above a 7/A, at 71.8 per cent. Conversely, this fell to only 4.6 per cent for those who sat science.
Overall GCSE entries increased by 4.8 per cent from 5.9 million last summer to just under 6.2 million in 2024, according to the Department for Education.
The most popular subjects were science: double award, mathematics and English language.
The least subscribed exam was leisure & tourism, taken by just 130 pupils.