Comprehensive sex education The result is a record high, girls are ahead of boys take an exam Was scrapped.
Thousands of teenagers picked up their score On Thursday morning, after the pandemic, exams were replaced by teacher assessments.
Result from UK show:
- 28.9% of GCSE scores are 7/A and above, compared with 26.2% last year. 2019 is the exam held last year, and the figure is 20.8%.
- London students are among the best in senior grades, with 34.5% of GCSE scores of 7/A, which is the highest score in the country. Compared with last year’s highest score, London’s performance has also improved by 3.1 percentage points-this is the country’s largest increase.
- Girls are far ahead of boys, with 33.4% of girls having the highest scores, compared with 24.4% of boys. This is a difference of nine percentage points. Last year, the gap between boys and girls was 8 percentage points. At the last exam in 2019, boys scored 6.5 percentage points lower than girls. This means that the girls once again expanded their lead.
- In England, 3606 students have achieved grade 9 in seven or more GCSEs-64% of them are girls. But in Grade 4/C, the gap between boys has narrowed, increasing by 1.3 percentage points, while girls have increased by 0.4 percentage points.
- The maximum score of a private school increased by 4 percentage points—a higher increase than any other type of school. This means that 61.2% of private schools have scores of 7/A or above. The performance of comprehensive schools increased by 2.3 percentage points, of which 26.1% were excellent. But the data also shows that continuing education and sixth-grade colleges have the highest percentage increase in their grades, with their grades increasing by about 50%-but the base is very low. In private schools, grades improved by 7.1%.
- 77.1% of GCSE scores are 4/C and above, compared with 76.3% and 67.3% in 2020 and 2019 exams, respectively.
- The overall pass rate for at least a 1 or G grade dropped slightly to 99%, compared with 99.6% last year. When the last exam was held in 2019, the percentage was 98.3%.
- Spanish and geography are becoming more and more popular. The number of Spanish speakers has increased by 4.7% over last year, and geography has increased by 4.2% over last year.
- The most popular GCSE is the Double Science Award with 896,138 entries, followed by Mathematics and English.
- In England, the average number of GCSEs for each 16-year-old student is 7.85.
* 7.4% of all entries in England are in the 9th grade.
GCSE is now scored 9-1 instead of A* to G, where 9 is the highest grade. Level 7 is equivalent to the old A level, and level 4 is equivalent to the old C. But other numerical grades are not directly comparable to the alphabet system.
The digital grading system was introduced by the former Minister of Education Michael Gove to better distinguish the top student, A and A* are now divided into three levels 9, 8 and 7.
Class C was previously considered a pass mark. Under the new system, a score of 4 is a standard pass and a score of 5 is a strong pass.
After the exam was cancelled for the second year in a row due to the pandemic, Thursday’s results are based on teacher assessments. Last year, the algorithm used to determine the score was scrapped at the last minute. This year’s grades are determined by teachers based on various internal tests, coursework, and other evidence.
The principal, education expert and test regulator Ofqual insisted that the results are fair and have been checked. After review by the examination committee, less than 1% of schools changed their grades.
Students only received assessments on the topics they had taught during the pandemic, and did not miss any content due to the suspension of illness.
