Students are receiving their A-level results in a year when young people had their education disrupted by the pandemic and concrete crisis.
Hundreds of thousands of students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are receiving grades to help them progress on to university, an apprenticeship or employment. Last year, more than a quarter of UK A-level entries were awarded A or A* grades, down on 36.4% in 2022. But it was higher than in 2019 - the last year that summer exams were taken before Covid - when 25.4% UK A-level entries were awarded top grades.
The cohort of students who are receiving their A-level results were in Year 9 when schools closed due to the pandemic, and they were the first year group to sit GCSE exams in 2022 after they were cancelled for two years in a row. Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said: "Young people deserve enormous credit for what they have achieved, in the face of both the huge disruption of recent years, and in too many cases the inequality that goes hand in hand with young people's backgrounds.
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