Thousands of students across the country receive GCSE results

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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 thousands of teenagers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland found out how they did in their GCSEs on Thursday, as top grades nationwide rose from last year but fewer entries scored a good pass, national figures show.Londoners were “far ahead of any other region” when it came to achieving at least a 7 or an A grade, with 28.4% getting those top results.

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00:00GCSE results this year are stable in comparison with 2024 and 2023. The differences that we're

00:17seeing this year as small fractions of a decimal point are natural variation that we would get

00:23between any year they are not statistically significant. The GCSEs are a real gateway qualification they're not easy you have to work pretty hard to get the grades and of course they have worked hard but they're a gateway to what you want to do next for the A level choices you want to make whether it's psychology English literature French or maths. I did really well I got 11 nines I'm really happy with it. It's the same as what I got in my marks it's maybe a little higher than I was

00:53expecting so I'm really happy with it.

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