- A level results revealed with more than a quarter achieving top grades
- More than a quarter (27.8%) of UK entries were awarded an A or A* grade
- Excluding 2020-2022,this is the highest proportion of A* grades awarded since they were first handed out in 2010
- The total number of students accepted on to UK degree courses has risen by 3%
A level results revealed with more than a quarter achieving top grades
The nail biting wait for thousands of students is finally over as thousands received their A level results today.
Final marks were released to the 17 and 18-year-olds at 8am after sitting the exams in May and June across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
More than a quarter (27.8%) of UK entries were awarded an A or A* grade, up by 0.6 percentage points on last year when 27.2% achieved the top grades.
This was also higher than in 2019 – the last year that summer exams were taken before the pandemic – when 25.4% of entries were awarded A or A* grades.
Excluding 2020-2022,this is the highest proportion of A* grades awarded since they were first handed out in 2010.
The total number of students accepted on to UK degree courses has risen by 3% on the same point last year, with 425,680 taking up places so far, initial Ucas figures show.
But the overall pass rate – the proportion of entries graded A* to E – has fallen to 97.2% this year, which is lower than last year (97.3%) and the pre-pandemic year of 2019 (97.6%).
The grades can determine where they go to university or whether they can get onto other apprenticeship and employment schemes.