Today A-Level students get to find out their results. This year’s results show the amount of students achieving top grades in A-levels has fallen to its lowest for over a decade.
This year 25.2% of A-level students got an A grade or higher. This is the lowest percentage since 2007. The overall pass rate remains the same as last years at 97.6% for students in Northern Ireland, England and Wales.
Six weeks after the last A level exams took place, more than 300,000 second year A-level students can now see what they got. Universities and Colleges use the results to confirm and withdraw offers of places to students.
The University and College Admissions Service (Ucas) have said there is already a dip in the number of student who have been accepted for the degree courses. A total of 408,960 people, from the UK and overseas, have had places confirmed, down 1% on the same point last year.
Ucas have a hotline for anyone who did not get the results they hoped for. It is a free helpline and the number is: 0800 100 900.
Unexpected exam results? Contact the Exam Results Helpline for free, independent advice about your options – 0800 100 900 #ALevelResults2019 #Clearing2019
— UCAS (@ucas_online) August 15, 2019
Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said: “Of course, the minds of thousands of young people getting their results will soon turn to the next chapter in their lives, whether that’s a place at one of our world-class universities, earning on an apprenticeship or entering the world of work,”
