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Here’s what you can do if you fail your GCSE exams. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images) (Photo by Peter Nicholls/Getty Images)

How to resit your GCSE exams if you fail

The publication of today’s GCSE results sees Highfields School’s ‘Class of 2023’ celebrating excellent achievements.

Live GCSE Results Day 2023: All the results and photos from across Derbyshire

NHS nurse Kelly Foster, who failed her GCSEs

Woman becomes high ranking senior NHS nurse despite failing GCSEs

Students are gearing up for GCSE exams

Quiz: Can you answer these GCSE maths questions

The latest Census figures from the Office for National Statistics show 49,880 people were eligible to work in Chesterfield in 2021. Of them, 4,340 (8.7%) had no qualifications whatsoever.

More than one in 20 Chesterfield workers have no qualifications

Brookfield community school GCSE results day. Jim Thornton and Sylvie Kurcewicz.

'Outstanding' Brookfield Community School exam results show improvement

Looking back at past GCSE result days.

Archive photos show Derbyshire student celebrating GCSE results down the years

Brookfield Community School GCSE results day 2022

Brookfield School students celebrate GCSE results day

Nandos is giving out free food to students

Nando’s is giving away free food to students on results day this month

These are the areas with the smartest students in England

Alex was chosen out of nearly 2,500 applicants for the award.

Chesterfield joiner who left marketing job to join trade wins national award

First News: A beary good idea!

The GCSE class of 2022 will be the last to graduate from S.Anselm's in Bakewell.

Bakewell private school ends GCSE provision to focus on younger pupils

The GCSE class of 2022 will be the last to graduate from S.Anselm's in Bakewell.

Bakewell private school ends GCSE provision to focus on younger pupils

Students can choose A-Level and GCSE exam topics next year - Ofqual and educatio...

Tupton Hall student Frances Archibald who achieved an astonishing 10 Grade 9s

Delight at GCSE results at Tupton Hall School

Students across Derbyshire are collecting their GCSE results today

Live LIVE: GCSE results day 2021 in Derbyshire

Some of Netherthorpe School's top achievers (L to R) Megan Ives, Lauren Rodgers, Ernie Harmson, Riley Lockwood, Edward Swann, James Vernon, Chris Swann, Imogen Levesley and Fabricio Mougou

GCSE success for students at Staveley school

A number of big restaurant chains - including Nando’s - are offering free food deals to A Level and GCSE students this week (Photos: Getty Images/Flickr)

Where to get free food on GCSE results day 2021 - including Nando’s, Las Iguanas...

Post 16 Centre, Valley Road, Worksop.

A-Level results.
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Nottinghamshire County Council praises students as they pick up A-Level exam res...

MPs say terms like “white privilege” may have contributed towards neglect of poorer white pupils (Photo: Shutterstock)

Poorer white pupils suffer years of neglect due to terms like ‘white privilege’,...

Mark Cottingham, principal of Shirebrook Academy

Shirebrook students praised for building up resilience after facing “the worst o...

A mother helps her daughter put on a mask (Photo by DESIREE MARTIN / AFP) (Photo by DESIREE MARTIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Masks will NOT be compulsory when schools return – and neither will ‘regular’ te...

Students receive their results (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Here's how students will receive exam grades this summer - and there are some BI...

GCSE and A Level grades will be decided by teachers this year, exams watchdog Ofqual has announced (Photo: Shutterstock)

GCSE and A Level results will be decided by teachers this year - despite 2020's ...

Mark Cottingham pictured outside Shirebrook Academy.

Shirebrook school reports four-fold increase in demand for study places during t...

GCSE, A Levels and SATs exams in England will be replaced by teacher assessments...

'Alternative arrangements’ will be made for GCSE and A Level exams this year - w...

GCSE and A Level exams will be adapted in 2021 to help students - including adva...

Child abuse has increased during lockdown - and neglected kids are being impacte...

Twice the number of students than normal have taken up learning instruments.

Shirebrook students turn to music to help with lockdown as demand for lessons ri...

Ben Madeley (left) and Angel Robinson pick up the school’s best GCSE results this year.

Shirebrook school gives more students the chance to set their sights on universi...

Daljit Nagra

Prize-winning poet Daljit Nagra shares creations for Derby festival

Who can you spot having fun at the Clumber Concerts at Clumber Park from years gone by

Clumber Concerts over the years

Poorer pupils are falling more than 18 months behind richer ones in Derbyshire. Photo: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Poorer GCSE pupils in Derbyshire nearly two years behind richer classmates

Stephanie Bealing.

Chesterfield College GCSE students celebrate exam success

The exam board is regrading all of the results (Photo: Shutterstock)

Here’s why BTec results have been delayed - and how grades will be calculated

Summer Burton and Elise Raven.

Staveley school students' GCSE success

An art and design class at Chesterfield College.

Chesterfield College's important message for students

Education Secretary Gavin Williamson apologised to students and parents affected by "significant inconsistencies" with the grading process intoduced after exams were cancelled due to Covid-19. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

A-Level and GCSE results to be based on teacher estimates

Ofqual is reviewing its process for appeals (Photo: Shutterstock)

Ofqual has suspended its criteria for pupils wanting to appeal their A levels an...

Pupils will be able to use their mock exam results as the basis for an appeal (Photo: Shutterstock)

This is how to appeal your GCSE and A level results

Grades will be decided in a different way this year due to cancelled exams (Photo: Shutterstock)

A Level students will not be awarded final grades lower than their mock exam res...

This year's grades have been marked differently due to school closures caused by the pandemic. (Shuttertsock)

Students unable to appeal exam results this year are being handed a ‘life senten...

Exams across the UK were cancelled in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, meaning grades this year have been calculated in a different way (Photo: Shutterstock)

Here’s when GCSE results will be out in England - and how to collect grades

The tool features three to five minute revision videos presented in a Netflix-style layout (Photo: Shutterstock)

GCSE students can access a free learning resource while schools are closed - her...