GCSE students thrilled at receiving teacher predicted grades after results algorithm is scrapped

More than a quarter of GCSEs were awarded top grades today, up from around a fifth last year as students across the country collected their results.

Of the GCSEs handed to 16-year-olds in England 27.5 per cent were marked at 7 or above, equivalent to A or A*, compared with 21.8 per cent last year, as shown in the table below.

Almost four fifths (78.8 per cent) of results were handed pass marks, up from 69.9 per cent in 2019.

Over 950,000 students in England received their teachers’ predicted grades on Thursday - known as centre assessed grades or CAGs – rather than those calculated by an algorithm, after an about-turn by ministers earlier this week.

Education chiefs have warned that sixth forms may have to introduce aptitude tests to weed out weaker students in the wake of GCSE grade inflation.

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