UK teens notched up record GCSE results, with 20% of exams awarded top grades:see strategic studies 2 do next?

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Britain's teenagers notched up record GCSE results, with one in five exams awarded top grades.

Overall 20.7% of grades were at A+ or A, an increase of 1.2 percentage points on last year.

More than 65.7% were at grades A+ to C, up from 63.3% last year. The rises come despite the number of entries dipping to a five-year low.

There were more than 5.6 million entries this summer compared with 5.8 million in 2007.

The Joint Council for Qualifications, who released the national GCSE results, said this was due to a decrease in the number of 16-year-olds and evidence of pupils being entered early for GCSE English and maths.

There was a massive slump in the numbers of pupils taking information technology - with entries down by more than 14,000.

Modern languages also took another hit, with French and German both suffering drops in entries. French was down by 6.8% on last year while German fell by 5.4%.

There was also movement in science entries, which officials put down to changes to the science curriculum. This year the science double award has been abolished and replaced by two separate qualifications, science and additional science.

The results showed that fewer candidates were taking additional science than previously took the double award. But there were increased entries in the separate sciences, with biology up by 35.3%, chemistry up 29.4% and physics up 29.1%.

Jim Sinclair, director of the JCQ, said: "Once again, we have seen a welcome increase in results at GCSE despite the lowest entry for five years. This is evidence of the hard work of the students and the continued dedication of their teachers

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Answer 1

Wrong and incorrect

It wasn't UK teens it was English and Welsh teens.

You can't take English results and apply them UK wide, that is false use of statistics.

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Answer 2

Wow is this a record cut and paste? I sure do hope the students did not include this technique to get the grades.

Oh, whats the question?

Answer 3

i just got mine :D had 11 cs woohoo:)

Answer 4

Well done to all of them, to those who say exams are getting easier wrong I have watched how hard my nieces and nephews have worked they all deserve the results they are getting.

Answer 5

I took my GCSEs 3 years ago this year, and they were a piece of p**s to me, but there were people I knew who found them really difficult. The reason the results are so good now, is that many schools don't enter pupils that they know will fail. The schools success rides on their results, and league tables etc etc, there's far too much importance laid on exam results, and nowhere near enough on teaching standards.