A-level results Wales 2024: Updates, celebrations and grade boundaries as students collect their grades

Teenagers across Wales are collecting their A-level results today amid warnings that results will be lower than last year. This summer’s exams returned in full to pre-pandemic conditions meaning candidates did not have forewarning about topics or any other help to mitigate for Covid “lost learning”.

A-level and AS Levels exams and assessments took place in Wales in 2022 and 2023 with extra support being provided including some advance information of content and a supportive grading approach. That all changed for candidates this year.

Kerry Davies, head of qualifications monitoring and standards at exam regulator Qualifications Wales, said people should expect to see lower results this morning compared to the last few years. She said A-levels, and vocational qualification results are expected to be broadly similar to those pre-pandemic and you can read more about the reasons why here.

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Exams were cancelled by the pandemic in 2020 and 2021 and have not been held under “normal” conditions since 2019 leading to what some have seen as “grade inflation" with record high results posted. In 2020 and 2021 candidates received results based on teacher assessments to take into account Covid disruption and classroom closures.

For those wanting to go on to university, Clearing may be busy with some students receiving better or worse results than expected. But there has also been a significant fall in the number of 18 year-olds applying for university.

Stay with us while we bring you the all important results and reactions from across Wales.