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Record GCSE pass rate in results based on teacher assessment – BBC News
There have been record pass rates for hundreds of thousands of GCSE students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, which were based on teacher assessment.
In England those getting a grade 4 and above was up by 9%, with the number of top grades of 7 and above up by 25%.
In Wales the numbers of pupils getting an A to A* rose by 26% and in Northern Ireland, the number of top grades was up by 5.7% on last year.
Meanwhile half a million B-TEC students are still waiting for their grades to be re-classified.
Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by education editor Branwen Jeffreys.
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The US said it has hit “dozens” of Iranian military targets in overnight attacks, in response to Iran hitting commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
The military said it struck “air-defense systems, coastal radar sites, missile and drone capabilities, and small boats”, using aircraft, ships, and drones – including “one-way attack sea drones for the first time”.
“The Strait of Hormuz is a vital maritime corridor for global trade,” the US military said. “Iran does not control it”.
In response, Iran said it targeted US bases in Jordan, Bahrain, and Kuwait and also radar systems in Oman.
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President Donald Trump has said the US is reinstating a naval blockade of Iranian ports and will impose a 20% charge on all cargo shipped through the Strait of Hormuz following days of escalating strikes between the two countries.
He said this would stop “Iran’s ships or customers” from entering or leaving the key oil shipping route, but “all other countries will have fair and open use of the Strait”.
Iran’s foreign minister later said whoever provides safe passage “should be compensated for this service”, but Iran would remain the strait’s “GUARDIAN” – using Trump’s word.
Tehran and Washington clashed over the strait’s control after exchanging strikes in the region overnight and on Monday.
The US said it carried out strikes against military targets in Iran, targeting air defence systems, coastal radars, and missile and drone sites. Iran said it responded by striking US military bases in Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain, and radars in Oman.
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Wildfires of ‘exceptional scale’ have taken force in Paris, as neighbouring Spain still tackles flames across the country following its own devastating fires.
Now the UK is also experiencing wildfires in England and Wales, as its third heatwave of the year is set to intensify again this week.
Here’s what we know so far about the extent of wildfires in Europe and the UK, and how heatwaves are impacting them.
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Explosions have been heard near two Iranian port cities, Bandar Abbas and Bushehr, state media has reported.
It comes after another night of strikes between the US and Iran, with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps saying it hit two UAE tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and targeted US facilities in Jordan and Bahrain.
The UAE called the attack “brazen”, adding that an Indian crew member was killed and eight others were injured.
Meanwhile, the US military says it completed strikes on targets aimed at degrading “Iran’s ability to attack commercial shipping” – Iranian state media reports three people were killed.
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The US military said it was carrying out a new wave of strikes on targets in Iran. It said the aim of the attacks was to degrade Iran’s ability to attack shipping in the strait of Hormuz. It came ass the US Navy resumed its blockade of Iran’s ports.
Iran said that control of the strait of Hormuz was required for its national security and it will exercise sovereignty over the key shipping lane, whatever the cost.
President Trump announced that he was scrapping a plan he had announced a day earlier, for placing a 20% toll or tariff on all cargos passing through the strait of Hormuz.
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@jo.murden
January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
I wish😭
@scotsman242424
January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
Big shock, of course teachers would give higher marks, makes them look like good teachers….
@unknown-4590
January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
I cried and suffered for several days about my results I always had an ambition to do a levels but never got in to do it and was rejected from my dream college why are you showing people who are happy you should be showing people like me I was on the verge of giving up
@deecee1031
January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
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@liaqatalishigree295
January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
These are luck guys
Enjoy result👏
@jayfill8762
January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
Where are these kids mask 😷 🙄
@christoguichard4311
January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
We are back to the days of Blair, when EVERYONE can go to "yooo knee".
Utter bollocks.
A travesty most of all for all the kids…who have been lied to. 😒
@OliviaLouise
January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
anyone wanna explain why i still got downgraded from mocks and class work 😅
@louistaylor8808
January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
Aaaaaaaaaand now a influx of falsely over qualified people, leading to more unemployment
@japfourme381
January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
There will be winners & losers!! It’s just a shame they all couldn’t have sat their exams! It would have been much fairer!! The papers could have been adjusted to reflect the shortfall to the curriculum. Well done to everyone though!!
@beyoncelor4853
January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
I got downgraded
@katozrippla1497
January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
I hate this because it just makes everything I worked for mean nothing. I'm a year 11 student and the grades I got were from the mock exams that I sat in January. No one can say that those mock exams weren't real exams because they were the exact papers that the year 11's sat in 2019. I got 9s in English Lit, Chem, and Biology as well as 8s and 7s, and what do you know, that's what my teachers gave me for my GCSE's. So, no, I wasn't handed these grades… I worked for them. I did a painful amount of revision from November – January trying to get those grades. I treated it like a real GCSE because I knew that I'd have to do the same in my real exams.
I can't act proud of my grades around others now because nobody believes that I actually deserve them. So… There goes my self-esteem.
Let's be honest, our year has missed out on a whole closing chapter of our lives. We had prom taken away from us, the ability to say goodbye to our teachers and thank them. I didn't even get the last day of school as our school locked down without warning us, so noone could say goodbye or sign shirts. Then to have the anxiety for these whole 6 months of whether we should still revise for our exams just in case we got downgraded. For me, I was honestly looking forward to my exams. Our teachers kept us in the dark constantly and none of us deserved the stress that we went through, only now to have our whole GCSE's remembered as the "year that had their grades handed to them". I didn't work hard for 5 years of my life just to be given this.
@samrahm8818
January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
Tbh this isntt fairr on us upcoming year 11's
@youtube-getitright2862
January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
For young people this will be one of the biggest of life's challenges to date, I don't blame them for having plans, hopes and dreams; I am concerned when I hear that 25 schools predicted nothing lower than A* for all exam candidates. If true; a big if; then that would smack of teachers playing school league tables and making themselves look good. Anyone else seen this in print or am I just hearing gossip?
@tkb4026
January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
Right prepare for a bunch of dumbasses in universities.
@cipur11
January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
People in government and mainstream have to be charged with crimes against humanity for this plandamic!
@mckenzie7
January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
Teachers really gave out grades like Oprah 😂
@Sand4Gold
January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
'Pass rate'? – they sat final exams (?), BAME grades have gone up 500% according to one report?
@adrithmanvik1853
January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
Lmao my grades remained pretty much exactly the same as my mock grades.
@crodsbye
January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
Is it that this new algorithm overstates the students' abilities or did the original exam-sitting undermine their true potential?
@Riiisuu
January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
Those who sucked off teachers are sleeping happy…horrible way to grade.
@10charlieman
January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
Im a student who was supposed to take my GCSEs and all i can say is 🖕
@guitar999able
January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
Colleges and universities just want the tuition fees. Still…it keeps unemployment down. I have had my degree for 10 years and never been able to use it. Colleges are more interested in keeping themselves in a job than they are your future.
@confuzzeledmarshmallow3312
January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
Some of y’all are blaming the students for these grades. It’s the teachers that decided not the kids. It would be unfair for them to have to do them in September .
@sydneystubbs6601
January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
This year’s results are bittersweet. So long as we all strive for more post-16 these grades will have little effect on future workplace. We’ve all worked so hard for 5 years, and hope we can all work harder for another few
@MrYouExtra
January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
If they had all this time at home, it was best they used the time to study.
@LiveLake
January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
They're lucky, I got an email didn't get to go into school for results day
@lewismiddleton829
January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
For everyone out here that’s putting us GCSE students down, just shut the fuck up already. Did we choose to have our exams cancelled? No way, if I had the choice I’d take my exams in a heartbeat. And for everyone coming at that guy who had a target of a 6 but got an 8, my science target grade was a 5 but I managed to get a 9 because in every mock, I got 8s and 9s because I worked my ass off and stayed up until midnight revising. I’m sure that guy did that too. Instead of hurling abuse at people for the grades they got, maybe just think to yourself, ‘hmmm maybe SOME students actually did work hard, and actually earned their grades.’
@edit5517
January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
Some how my school art class went from only 5-6 people passing to everyone passing with very high grades.
example- a student who was on a 3 went to a 6.
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January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
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@kliakay4708
January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
Am I the only one thinking they still could have done exams during the time schools were closed? They could have used classrooms and halls then go at half the capacity than normal. They also could have sanitised desks, required masks and had staggered times. I can name so many other things they could have done. How comes they allowed primary school children to go school but not allow year 11s to sit their exams? It would have been a hassle to host exams and longer but we would not be in this kind of position.
@Shookbanglol
January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
RELIF, I got 3 grades below I should have got
@handle123is7minustheone
January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
I passed everything apart from maths I got 4 in my maths mock but they gave me a 2 I got an 8 in computer science they gave me a 4 I got a 5 in design tech they gave me a 4. Dont know why I'm the only one who's been given shit grade.
@clovisdacruz6078
January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
“Success is a great liar” – Nietzsche.
@jamesshek4441
January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
Everyone overpredicted
@jessicaagina9484
January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
If anything I was downgraded on my results. In all my science mocks I had gotten 9s this year but ended up with 8s instead.
@robsmithracing
January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
Give everyone A’s otherwise the wet wipes will all cry about it.
@ttvsargesaunder5203
January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
Well this has just messed people up who are taking GCSEs the next year
@mattspencer187
January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
It’s ridiculous how some people have managed to go up two grades from their predicted or target grades. There were ppl who got 6s in all their mocks who then got grade 8s and it just seems the system is broken in the favour of some teachers who want their performance to be good. For example that lad who’s target was a 6 in French but got an 8, that’s unrealistic as french is underperformed nationally.
@flipenzo1244
January 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm
Lol everybody had it easy. Grades with no exams are irrelevant. They open pubs but cant do low capacity exam rooms.