Proportion awarded grades 7 or above up on last year despite concerns over Covid era’s impact on cohort
Pupils in England who were thought to have been among the worst affected by Covid have bounced back in their GCSE results, with more achieving top grades despite the disruption of the pandemic.
Fears had been raised that this cohort would be severely affected by having key stage 2 tests cancelled in the final year of primary school, when the pandemic hit in 2020, disrupting their transition to secondary school.
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