Following our report yesterday of overall GCSE trends, here is a regional breakdown of how pupils scored in this year's GCSEs.
Northern Ireland's students performed the best of all, with 75.1% of exams gaining an A*-C grade and 27.1% scoring an A or A*.
In England, 66.9% of exams scored an A*- C g...
Read more ›750,000 students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland received their GCSE results today. An analysis of overall trends in this year's GCSE results yields findings almost identical to those of last week's A-level results.
These were the main trends:
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