Students at Bryn y Deryn Pupil Referral Unit (PRU) in Cardiff are among thousands of young people getting their exam results in the next two weeks.
At the PRU, they try to make sure young people who were disengaged from education leave with qualifications, and are ready for more study or a job.
Unlike other schools, exams are held not in a hall but small groups in class, and students get extra help.
Pupils will receive their GCSE results on 24 August.
Before that, results for A-levels and vocational qualifications will be published.
We visited Bryn y Deryn on the day of a maths GCSE exam in June, when most pupils in the PRU for 14 to 16-year-olds were sitting the paper.
Mason, 15, who sat the exam a year early to get some practice before next summer, said: "I'm happy with myself I tried my best, that's all I can do.
"We start early in Year 10 and then we can build up our confidence in exams and in Year 11 we can just smash them out then and get them done - it's just so much easier."
