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This year has seen the first set of in-person GCSE exams take place since before the pandemic.

Nationally GCSE grades suffered a dip but these three teenagers from London bucked the trend

The hard work and resilience of teachers and pupils to reach this point is the most impressive result of all

'These results suggest the government has not just failed the north of England, but systematically failed many of the poorest children in our country', an expert declared

Cramlington Learning Village (CLV) pupil Daniel Hayton opened his results this morning to discover he had received nine Grade 9s as well as a distinction in his Drama BTEC

Miles Waterworth got nine 9s and two 8s, while Srimukhi Kalakonda achieved two 9s, four 8s and one 7.

Pearson said some 5,700 students registered for the qualification were currently ineligible to receive their grade

There is a gender divide in the subjects teenagers choose to study. In 2022, 63% of UK GCSE candidates taking full-course Physical Education (PE) for GCSE were male. For Art and Design subjects, though, boys made up only 35% of the students taking the subject.

Figures show 37% of GCSE entries were awarded the highest grades of A* to A, a 6.5 percentage point increase on 2019