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.
There had been fears that this cohort, who were in the final year of primary when the pandemic hit in 2020, cancelling their key stage 2 tests and disrupting their transition to secondary school, would be severely impacted going forward in their education.
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