A-level results 2023: top grades fall more steeply in England than other parts of UK – live
School leavers in the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man will also receive their results today
Some initial analysis on the A-level results from our data editor, Pamela Duncan.
As expected, this year's grades are down on last year's and a far cry from the pandemic-influenced highs of 2020 and 2021. But, while the exam boards set out to bring grades down to pre-pandemic levels, they couldn't quite bring themselves to go the whole hog.
Firstly, I want to say a huge congratulations to the hundreds of thousands of students up and down the country who are celebrating their results and next steps today.
I am delighted to see more than 200,000 UK 18-year-olds have secured their first choice, which is testament to their hard work and commitment to progress to higher education in a year that has seen many complex factors at play, such as geopolitics, the economy and job market, and cost of living.
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