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More Students Have Passed Their A-Levels In 2025 Than Ever Before — Are AQA's Grade Boundaries To Thank?

UK A-Level results hit record highs in 2025, sparking debate over whether AQA's grade boundaries made exams easier — here's what the data and experts say.

International Business Times UK

A-level top grades reach record high outside of Covid years

Hundreds of thousands of pupils across England, Wales and Northern Ireland are finding out their exam results on Thursday.

Evening Standard

Record proportion of A-level students get top grades in England

Of more than 1.1m entries, 28.2% gained A or A* and 9.4% gained A*, though regional variations remain

The Guardian - UK

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Students will want universities to ‘understand context’ over grades – Ucas chief

Fewer students who are receiving their post-16 results this summer met the entry requirements for A-level courses two years ago, Ucas’s boss suggests.

Evening Standard

Fears A-level grade inflation ‘may be creeping back’ with more students set for top grades

The proportion of A-level entries scoring top grades this summer is likely to be higher than pre-Covid years

The Independent UK

Top A-level grades may remain higher this year than pre-pandemic levels – expert

A higher percentage of entries awarded an A or A* may be the ‘new normal’, it has been suggested.

The Independent UK

‘It wasn’t an error’: Ofqual boss defends regulator after withdrawn data row

Ian Bauckham says data apparently showing soaring extra time in A-levels and GCSEs was misunderstood, not wrong

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Exam board faces £350,000 fine after students received wrong GCSE results

More than 1,500 pupils were awarded the incorrect results for WJEC’s Eduqas food preparation and nutrition GCSE in 2024.

Evening Standard

Exam board fined £350k after sending students incorrect GCSE results

Those with incorrect lower grades were eventually issued their correct results

The Independent UK

Ofqual admits massively exaggerating number of students getting exam assistance

Regulator for England withdraws statistics for students receiving assistance in A-Level and GCSE exams going back to 2014

The Guardian - UK

Ofqual data ‘significantly overstated’ number of pupils given extra exam time

The exams regulator is withdrawing its statistics on access arrangements for GCSE and A-levels from 2014 to 2024 after data issues were found.

The Independent UK

The foreign language that is now the most popular among GCSE students

The overall number of entries for this summer’s exams for both GCSEs and A-levels has decreased

The Independent UK

Spanish overtakes French as most popular foreign language GCSE, figures suggest

Ofqual has published the provisional number of entries for GCSEs, AS and A-levels in England for this summer’s exam series.

Evening Standard

Extra exam time: why do so many schoolkids suddenly need it?

Every year, more pupils are granted special ‘access arrangements’ to give them a fairer chance in GCSEs, A-levels and other exams. But with more than 600,000 arrangements in England alone, can the schools keep up? And are some students gaming the system?

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Evening Standard

Ofqual will ‘take action’ if extra exam time given to private schools is unfair

A higher proportion of independent school pupils are granted 25% extra time to complete their exams than pupils in non-selective state schools.

Evening Standard

AI could be used to help generate exam question papers, Ofqual chief says

Sir Ian Bauckham is the Government’s preferred candidate for the chief regulator at Ofqual.

Evening Standard

Nearly one in three pupils in England given extra time in exams, says regulator

The total number of approved special access arrangements for GCSE, AS and A-level exams rose by 12.3% in the past year, according to Ofqual data.

The Guardian - UK

Experts raise concerns over ‘unreliable’ marking of GCSE English

Some high-achieving pupils in England received lower than expected grades that rose after being re-marked

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The Independent UK

Warning over plans to rollout digital exams across country

Plans have been made for on-screen exams

The Conversation

GCSE results: more young people are studying languages – but the overall picture for language learning remains bleak

The 2024 GCSE results reveal that more young people in schools in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are opting to study a language. French and Spanish remain the most popular languages, with increases of 2.9% and 6.2% from last year respectively.

The Independent UK

GCSE top grades down on last year as north-south divide in England grows

Hundreds of thousands of teenagers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland picked up their results on Thursday morning in a year when grades were due to be restored to 2019 levels in all three nations

Evening Standard

Top of the class: London students get best A-level results in the country

The capital saw 31.3 per cent of students awarded an A* or A this year

The Independent UK

RAAC, Covid, cost of living: What will affect A-level grades on results day 2024?

The education secretary has said inequality is ‘baked-in’ to England’s school system

The Guardian - UK

A-levels results: pupils in England achieve best results since 2010

Proportion of top grades is best outside Covid crisis but results in Wales and Northern Ireland are down on last year

The Independent UK

Backlash over thousands of A-level students at concrete crisis schools denied extra help

Labour MP Mary Foy says the decision not to provide extra consideration for affected pupils is ‘absolutely devastating’

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