Doncaster GCSE students to collect results as grades set to drop from pandemic high

Hundreds of thousands of students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are getting their results for the first GCSE exams in three years.

Extra help was given in this year's exams in response to the disruption to education caused by Covid, with students sitting physical exams for the first time since 2019.

Grades will be purposefully lowered from the record highs seen in 2020 and 2021, when exams were replaced by teacher-assessed grades.

Secondary education pupils across the city will find out their grades with students heading into their schools to collect their results in person or logging in online.

The results come after last week’s A-level results which again saw a drop in grades for students in Doncaster with pupils sitting exams rather than teacher assessed grades used during the pandemic.