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25 April 2026

Author: James Carr

GCSE Results 2021: Business Studies

Here are the trends in the latest business studies GCSE results for summer 2021. The proportion of grade 9 results achieved by students, equivalent to a high A* under the old GCSE system, rose to 8.5 per cent, compared to 6.1 per cent in 2020 and 3.1 per cent in 2019.   You can find […]

GCSE results 2021: PE records biggest rise in top grades

Physical education recorded the largest rise in top GCSE grades, while grades 7 or above issued in maths and chemistry only slowly inched up. This year the proportion of 16-year-old pupils in England earning a grade 7 or above at GCSE jumped to 30 per cent – compared with 27.5 per cent last year. But […]

Trust threatens High Court action after second termination notice

A trust has threatened to take its battle with ministers to the high court after being told for a second time it will be stripped of an ‘inadequate’ academy. Ministers had agreed to make a “fresh decision” about the future of Landau Forte Academy Moorhead, in Derby, after issuing a funding termination notice in September. […]

A-level results 2021: Geography

Here are the trends in geography A-level for 2021. Geography experienced a leap in the proportion of A* and A grades awarded this year.

A-level results 2021: History

Here are the trends in A-level history for 2021. There was a small increase in the proportion of top grades (A*/A) in history this year, while there was a drop across grades B to D.  

A-level results: French

Here are the trends in A-level French for 2021. There was an increase of more than six percentage points in the proportion of A* grades awarded. However, all other grades up to E experienced a dip.  

A-level results 2021: Law

Here are the trends in law A-level for 2021. There were small increases in the proportion of A* and A grades,  as B to E grades dipped when compared with last year.

A-level results 2021: Physics

Here are the trends in A-level physics for 2021. There was a slight rise in the proportion of A* and A grades in keeping with the overall trend for 2021 results.

A-level results 2021: Sociology

Here are the trends in sociology A-level for 2021. There was a slight rise in the proportion of A* and A grades as grades B to D dipped.