Almost 100,000 fewer top A-level grades are set to be awarded this year, an expert has warned
Professor Alan Smithers, director of the Centre for Education and Employment Research at the University of Buckingham, suggested 59,154 fewer A* grades and 35,505 fewer A grades will be awarded to sixth-formers this year compared with last year.
"During the teacher assessment years many students and their parents will have developed unreasonable expectations. However, last year more top grades were awarded for music and performing arts than physics and chemistry despite the return of exams, suggesting a "profound change" has taken place which may make it more difficult to cut the number of top grades awarded back to 2019 levels.
In Wales and Northern Ireland pupils will still have some idea of the questions they will be asked, as was the case for pupils in England last year.Top A-level results are set to go down this year.Maths was the most popular A-level subject this year while English came fourth behind biology and psychology.
Biology and chemistry are more popular now than in 1992 with physics having returned to around that year's take-up following a slump and subsequent rise in popularity.
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