LIVE: A-Level results day 2021 as students across Derbyshire find out their grades
This year’s exams were cancelled for the second year running, leaving teachers to assess their students and award grades based on a range of evidence.
Results went live on the UCAS website at 8.30am on Tuesday, August 10, with many students heading to their respective schools and sixth form colleges to pick up their results in person thereafter.
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Hide AdWe’ll be bringing you all the latest news from across the Derbyshire region on this live blog as A-Level results day 2021 gets underway, as well as providing information and advice for those who did not receive the grades they’d hoped for and are having to go through clearing or consider new options.
Live updates as students from across Derbyshire receive their A-Level results
Key Events
- Students across Derbyshire are finding out their A-Level grades today
- We’re at Outwood Academy Newbold as Sixth Form pupils open their results
- A-Level results hit record high as almost 50% of pupils land A and A* grades nationally
Staveley’s Netherthorpe School celebrates Post-16 success
Students at Netherthorpe School are celebrating an excellent set of A-Level results today.
Headteacher said she is “very proud of all our young people and how they have adapted and responded to the uncertainty and change they have faced this year at school.”
Full story here: https://www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/education/sixth-form-students-at-staveleys-netherthorpe-school-celebrate-a-level-success-3340376
A-Level results hit record high as almost 50% of pupils land A and A* grades
The proportion of A Level students awarded an A or A* grade for has surged to a record high this year, after exams were cancelled for a second consecutive year due to Covid-19.
Thousands of students have instead been given grades determined by teachers, with pupils assessed only on what they have been taught during the pandemic.