By Hazel Shearing Education reporter Media caption, Missed your grades? The BBC’s Hazel Shearing discusses – in a minute – what you can do The percentage of top A-level grades in England, Wales and Northern Ireland hasactually fallen consideringthat 2021, however stays greater than in2019 About 36.4% of A-levels were marked at Aand A this year, while last year, 44.8% of tests were graded A or above. It is the veryfirst time because 2019 that A-level grades haveactually been based on public tests, after 2 years of cancellations since of the Covid pandemic. Students likewise got T-level, BTec and other results on Thursday. The university admissions service, Ucas, stated 65.3% of trainees in the UK who used to university were used their veryfirst option. This year’s A-level marking system hasactually been changed, so that grades show “a midway point” inbetween 2019 – when 25.4% were Aand A grades – and 2021, when teacher-assessed grades led to a boom in top marks. England’s examination guarddog Ofqual has stated the method was meant to bring grades closer to pre-pandemic levels, while showing “that we are in a pandemic healing duration and trainees’ education hasactually been interrupted”. Similar strategies were put in location for Northern Ireland and Wales. In Scotland, where students gotten their examination results on 9 August, the pass rate at Higher level fell to 78.9% – down from 87.3% in2021 Ucas stated on Thursday earlymorning that 425,830 trainees hadactually been accepted into university or college – the 2nd greatest number on record – however 20,360 trainees had not. They are being recommended to search for jobs through cleaning, which is where Ucas highlights courses with readilyavailable areas. Ucas likewise stated more trainees from the most disadvantaged backgrounds were granted a location at university than in 2019, and that 71% of university candidates who took T-levels were accepted. A-level results: More protection The A-level results for England, Wales and Northern Ireland likewise reveal: The general pass rate was 98.4%, which falls inbetween the rate in 2019 and in 2021Girls got more leading grades than kids. In overall, 37.4% of ladies’ entries were offered Aand A grades, compared with 35.2% of bo
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