A level results have fallen slightly in Wales, as students who sat their first summer exams since 2019 open their envelopes. However they are still higher than pre-pandemic with more than four in 10 results at the top A*-A grades and 17.1% of pupils awarded the highest A*.
Results posted this morning show an overall 98* pass rate at grades A* to E compared with 99.1% last year. Today’s results are still higher than when the last year exams were sat in 2019 when the overall pass rate at A* to E was 97.6%. The percentage of entries graded at A or A* this year was 40.9%. This is down significantly from the record 48.3% in 2021 during the second year of teacher assessed grades and 27% when exams were last sat in 2019. A total 17.1* got the top A* grade.
Regulator Qualifications Wales and exam board the WJEC have insisted the awards are fair as they try to rein back what was seen as grade inflation after exams were cancelled and replaced with teacher assessed results during Covid.
