Did the new A* grade at A-level do what it was intended to do? Opinion is divided.

In the GCSEs an A* was introduced in 1994, and this year 5.1% of entries achieved it. The government's green paper on 14 to 19 education proposed having a "distinction" grade for A-levels, but in ...

More than 12,000 students with at least one A* grade pass at A-level will be turned away from Oxford and Cambridge this year. The figures put a question mark over whether the new A* grade ...

With a conditional offer to read English at Newnham College, Cambridge, Amy Parkin is hoping she meets the stiff entry requirement of two As and an A*. "The A* is new, so I was quite daunted ...

Key A-Level stats as exam results revealed for 2021. A record 44.8% of A-Level grades were A or A*, it has been revealed. Due to the coronavirus pandemic exams were cancelled for a second year ...

Nearly three in four (74 per cent) pupils taking A-levels in foreign languages other than French, German or Spanish this year achieved an A* or A - the biggest figure of any subject.

Did the new A* grade do what it was intended to do? Opinion is divided. For the tens of thousands of students celebrating climbing to this new height, much praise is due. With only one-in-12 A ...