{"id":7664,"date":"2024-08-15T07:32:56","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T07:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/a-level-results-day-2024-grades-and-clearing-explained\/"},"modified":"2024-08-15T07:32:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T07:32:56","slug":"a-level-results-day-2024-grades-and-clearing-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/a-level-results-day-2024-grades-and-clearing-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"A-level results day 2024: Grades and clearing explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Each exam is graded on a scale from A* to E.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Grade boundaries show the minimum number of marks you need for each grade. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are decided by examiners and published on results day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Qualifications Wales, which oversees Welsh exams, has said there is still a risk that performance in some subjects has not fully recovered since the pandemic. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So, it will <a href=\"https:\/\/qualificationswales.org\/news-views\/the-return-to-pre-pandemic-gcse-as-and-a-level-standards\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">use statistics to help set the grade boundaries<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a>, to prevent marks dropping significantly below 2019 levels. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In England and Northern Ireland, the way boundaries are decided has returned to normal.  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/education-58026976\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each exam is graded on a scale from A* to E. Grade boundaries show the minimum number of marks you need for each grade. They are decided by examiners and published on results day. Qualifications Wales, which oversees Welsh exams, has said there is still a risk that performance in some subjects has not fully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[4314,4316,75,3224,4315,2821],"class_list":["post-7664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","tag-alevel","tag-clearing","tag-day","tag-explained","tag-grades","tag-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7666,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7664\/revisions\/7666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}