What time do GCSE results 2024 come out and can you get grades online?

With A level results behind us, it’s now the turn of the approximately 5 million teenagers across the country, who will soon be finding out how they did in their GCSEs.

Most 15 and 16-year-olds sat their exams in May and June of this year - and will now be anxious to find out just how they did.

The wait is almost over, as GCSE students will find out their results on Thursday August 22. Unless your school has said otherwise or allowed in special circumstances, your results can’t be viewed online; you have to go in person to collect them from your school, which are usually open from 8am onwards.

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GCSE results day might not be viewed with quite as much significance as A level results day, with the latter deciding whether students were accepted onto their desired university course, determining at least the next three years of their lives. But pupils still need to achieve certain grades in order to be accepted to study at their desired sixth form college.

All employers require at least a C in English and Maths GCSE, while the optional subjects pupils take may also lay the groundwork for what they go on to study in the future.

In England, young people are now required to either stay in full-time education, start an apprenticeship or spend at least 20 hours a week working or volunteering while in part-time education or training, until they turn 18.

According to Ofqual, grading for GCSEs returned to normal last summer, bringing an end to disruption caused by the pandemic. Students’ work is marked anonymously by examiners, after which senior examiners will set grade boundaries across the subjects.

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