Examinations and Qualifications

How GCSEs, AS & A levels will be awarded in summer 2020...

Moderating teacher judgments in 2020...

GCSE results in English and maths: Whatever approach is taken, here is how it should be validated...

Further details on exams and grades announced...

Awarding grades in 2020...

DfE - Information about the EBacc performance measure and the criteria qualifications must meet to count towards it. DfE - English Baccalaureate: eligible qualifications....

DfE - Approved key stage 4 qualifications, discount codes and point scores for reporting in the 2014 to 2020 school and college performance tables....

DfE - Approved 16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes for reporting in the school and college performance tables....

DfE - T Levels are due to be introduced from the academic year 2020 to 2021. Find out what they are and what they mean for you. DfE - T Level action plan....

A-Level results 2019: The main trends in grades and entries...

Government welcomes more pupils studying science...

First ever Maths A-level where getting almost half of answers wrong will get you an A...

Further measures announced to boost the quality of post-16 qualifications...

Dispatch of exam scripts: yellow label service...

GCSE new grading scale: factsheets...

DfE - Education Secretary Damian Hinds launches consultation reviewing qualifications at Level 3 and below. DfE - Review of post-16 qualifications at level 3 and below in England. DfE - Students and qualifications at level 3 and below in England.  (This ad-hoc statistical release is...

Ofqual - Our summer report is published alongside reviews of marking and moderation statistics and a range of associated analyses....

DfE - Winning bidders to have exclusive rights to deliver first T Levels from 2020....

DfE - Pupils across the country celebrate success in new gold-standard GCSE qualifications. TES - GCSE results: Top grades up for first time in seven years. BBC News - GCSE results rise despite tougher exams. The Guardian - GCSEs: boys close gap on girls after exams overhaul....

BBC News - A-level students have been awarded the highest proportion of As and A*s since 2012, amid changes toughening the exams in England. DfE - Next generation of young people gaining the skills Britain needs. The Guardian - A-levels: proportion of students in England...

BBC News - There has been a further improvement in Welsh students' performance at the top grades at A level....

BBC News - More boys than girls have achieved the top A-Level grade in Northern Ireland for the first time....

The Sunday Times - Exam results are to be downgraded as a measure of school quality as the chief inspector moves to stamp out a culture of cramming children for tests....

The Guardian - The chief qualifications regulator in England, Sally Collier, said that year’s A-level and GCSE students would not be suffer from being the first to take the new, tougher, exams....

BBC News - The pass rate for this year's Higher exams was "broadly stable", Education Secretary John Swinney has said....