Overall, the proportion of top grades this year is 0.8 percentage points higher than pre-pandemic. But this is not evenly split between male and female students: the proportion of entries graded 9-7 from male students is 0.9 percentage points higher than 2019, while from female students it is just 0.4 percentage points higher.
TES have written a thoughtful piece about austria rcs data what the reasons behind these changes might be, which is well worth a read for anyone who wants to know more about the gender gap.
This year, results in reformed Tech Awards were issued for the first time.
This covers a range of vocational and technical qualifications at level 2 and below studied both by Key Stage 4 pupils and post-16 students.
Ofqual use the language of “strengthening” awards. Briefly, this seems to mean that pupils take their external assessments at the end of the course, and that the external assessments contribute at least 40% of the total marks of the qualification. Many awarding organisations have taken the opportunity to change some of the units within qualifications.