This was no ordinary year of A-levels - both in terms of exams and results.
The students receiving their grades on Thursday experienced three years of disrupted learning because of the pandemic.
And the story wasn't the same for everyone: the impact of school closures varied depending on things like how badly communities were hit by Covid, and how prepared schools were to handle the transition to remote learning.
It is a unique year, too, in that these A-level students had never taken public exams before this summer, after their GCSE exams were cancelled in 2020.
To counteract all of this disruption, special measures were introduced, such as advanced information about topics.
