Tens of thousands of A-level pupils were desperately trying to find a university place last night fo
Public Group active 2 years, 11 months agoTens of thousands of A-level pupils were desperately trying to find a university place last night following a record drop in grades.A crackdown on grade means as many as 61,000 teenagers across the UK are scrambling for a degree course – the most in almost a decade.Some 19,000 applicants failed to achieve the grades they needed to get into their chosen university, while the remainder may have decided to do a different course or might not know which degree they want to study.Around 73,000 fewer A*s and As were awarded this year compared with 2022, and the overall pass rate – the proportion of entries graded A* to E – fell to 97.3 per cent to the lowest level since 2008.
It marks the end of a two-year plan to return marks close to pre-pandemic standards. On a difficult day for many students, said results day was ‘not necessarily a deal-breaker’, while Education Secretary claimed no one would query the grades ‘in ten years’.Just 3,820 students in England gained three A*s – almost 5,000 fewer than last year, and 27.2 per cent of entries were awarded either an A or A*, down from 36.4 per cent in 2022 but up from 25.4 per cent in 2019. Education secretary Gillian Keegan (middle) pictured with City of London Academy students on A-level results day Alan Smithers, a former government adviser, said the students were the ‘unluckiest ever’, adding: ‘Their education has been hugely disrupted by Covid, they have seen grades awarded to the years above them soar, yet their own will plummet as grading in England has returned to pre-pandemic levels.’https://lildogbreedsblog8136.weebly.com/ generously stop by our own site.
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