Education
Students set new records for A-level grades in bumper year
Published August 13, 2026
Northern Ireland best performing with 30.7% of grades being As and A*s but Wales and England close behind
Sixth-formers have basked in a summer of record-breaking exam results in academic and vocational subjects, allowing more than a quarter of a million 18-year-olds to go on to higher education.
Students in England set new records for the proportion gaining the highest grades in A-level subjects, with 9.7% gaining A*s, up from 9.4% last year, setting new highs outside of the pandemic era when exams were scrapped.
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