Exam results 2023: how to make sense of ‘grade deflation’ as A grades fall
Students across England are receiving lower grades than they might have done in 2022. The percentage of A or A* grades given for A-levels has fallen from 35.9% to 26.5% in 2023. Pupils’ grades are closer to those from before the pandemic, when 25.2% of results were at A or A*. In 2021, 88.2% of all grades […]… Learn more.