The GCSE overall pass rate has fallen slightly for the fifth year in a row - but top grades have edged up across England, Wales and Northern Ireland
The gap between the pass rates for boys and girls across all three nations has narrowed again, to its lowest point since 2000
Hundreds of thousands of students are opening their GCSE, BTec and Cambridge Nationals results - you can watch live at the top of the page
From 11:00 BST, some pupils in England can check their grades via an app for the first time
At one school in Derby, it's confetti, cheers and happy tears as students receive their results, while aspiring dancer Finn "can't believe" he's "passed everything"
Not everyone getting their grades is a teenager, as 52-year-old grandmother Wynne is "shocked" but "very happy" to have passed her maths exam at the fifth attempt
If you didn't get the results you were hoping for - you can use our quiz to figure out what you want to do next
BBC Radio 1Xtra's Kaylee Golding has popped out of the booth to wish everyone opening their results today a "massive well done".
"I know it can be so scary and so much pressure," she says.
"I hope you got the result that you wanted, if not - don't worry. Regardless, you are a superstar."
Watch: Radio 1Xtra's Kaylee Golding tells students to 'get excited for future'
Kate Gough
Education reporter
Today marks the first time that some Year 11s across England can view their grades on an app, after a pilot last year involving thousands of students across Greater Manchester and the West Midlands.
The Department for Education told us about 750 schools across England have signed up to use the app this year, which is about one in five secondary schools.
So, if you’ve not already heard from your school that they’re signed up to use it, chances are you will still have to go and get your results in person.
That’s because school staff have to generate a QR code for you to scan so you can download the app. This is so they can vouch for your identity and make sure you’re seeing your own results and not someone else's.
The idea of the app is to have a digital record of your results that you can share with future employers or use to enrol on courses. It won’t replace the paper results slips that will still be provided by your school and will be available from 08:00.
If you really don’t want to go in, some individual schools or exam boards might still publish results through a school portal online or send them via email.
And you might be able to get your results posted out to you, but usually this needs arranging with your school in advance.
Results should be available on the app from 11:00 BST.
Jessie and Ellie, who have been best friends for more than a decade, opened their results together in Rochdale, Greater Manchester.
Both were happy with their results, which they say is "such a relief".
Ellie, who got full marks for her English Literature exam, thanked their "amazing teacher, Miss Evie" for pushing her.
And both girls received sevens in maths, which they say is all down to Mr Price.
"We both weren’t natural at maths but we wanted those sevens so he pushed us hard," Jessie says.
"We’ve grown up with these people, so it’s nice to see them happy," she adds, looking around at her fellow classmates.
Jessie and Ellie are heading to sixth form in the autumn
Image source, Eastern Education group/PA WireWe've heard a lot from 15 and 16-year-old pupils, but not everyone opening their GCSE results today is a teenager.
Wynne Hindle, a 52-year-old grandmother, says she is "shocked" but "very happy" to have passed her maths exam with a grade four. It was her fifth time trying.
"Keep at it," she says when asked what her message is to other adult learners.
“I just wanted to achieve something and I’m a resilient person. I find it hard to quit so I just kept going."
The former nanny and nursery nurse studied at the West Suffolk College, and now wants to work in a school as a teaching assistant or a learning support officer.
Kay Davidson
Reporting from Consett Academy, County Durham
We're hearing from students across England, Wales and Northern Ireland as they open their envelopes and see their results for the first time.
Aspiring dancer Finn is overjoyed to discover he's got what he needs to go on to dance college in Hartlepool.
"I passed everything, I can't believe it," he says.
"I'm really glad, I did not think I was going to pass everything, I can't lie.
"I'm glad it's done, but I enjoyed it."
Image source, PA MediaSome pupils at Greenwich Free School in south London looked surprised as they opened their envelopes
Image source, PA MediaThe overall GCSE pass rate has remained stable - with 67.3% of all grades across England, Wales and Northern Ireland at 4/C and above
Image source, PA MediaPupils at the London Nautical School were forming a nervous line this morning to collect their results
Image source, PA MediaThese students in Bolton were all smiles after tearing open their envelopes
Hazel Shearing
Education correspondent
More now on the national GCSE results data released around half an hour ago.
The gap between the pass rates for boys and girls across all three nations has narrowed again, to its lowest since 2000.
Girls continue to outperform boys - but their grades have dropped, while boys' results have risen very slightly.
It means there's a difference of 5.8 percentage points this year, down from 6.2 last year.
Looking at data that goes all the way back to the year 2000, that gap is the lowest it's been at any point this century.
It was at its widest in 2017 - 9.5 percentage points - and has been falling ever since.
Analysis from the Education Policy Institute last year suggested that girls' performance has been "declining in absolute terms" since the Covid pandemic.
It linked this to "worrying trends around girls' wellbeing" such as worsening mental health and social media use.
It’s an issue we explored in depth after last year's GCSE results, and we'll be taking another look today.
Robbie Meredith
NI education correspondent
Almost a third of GCSE entries in Northern Ireland have again been awarded the top A* and A grades.
That is much higher than in England or Wales.
More than 32,000 students have received their GCSE results in Northern Ireland today, with 31.7% of GCSE entries awarded A* or A.
That compares to 31.6% in 2025.
In English language and maths, which are compulsory subjects, over a quarter of entries were awarded grade A or A*.
Robbie Meredith
NI education correspondent
About 32,000 students in Northern Ireland have received their GCSE and some vocational qualification results.
Precious, a student from Integrated College Glengormley, in County Antrim, achieved two A*s, six As and one B.
"I'm very, very happy," Precious says, adding: "I was really nervous last night, but my mum was more nervous."
Oliver, from the same school, says he exceeded his expectations with five A*s and five As.
"It's been a nervous wait, but I'm really happy to have gotten my results," he says.
Hazel Shearing
Education correspondent
Nearly a quarter of maths and English GCSEs in England were taken by people aged 17 and older this year.
They made up 24.3% of maths and English grades – up from 23.4% last year.
Their pass rates are lower than last year. And, as is the case every year, they are also much lower than the pass rates among 16-year-olds.
In England, 19.8% of English language entries and 15.3% of maths entries from people aged 17 and over were marked at grade 4 - the pass rate - or higher.
Some of those older students will be mature students sitting exams for the first time, but most will be young people resitting papers.
In England, pupils who don't get at least a grade 4 in GCSE English and maths have to continue studying for it alongside their next course - their A-levels or their T-level, for example.
Resitting is not a requirement, according to the DfE, but colleges will generally enter students into exams when they think they are ready.
Hazel Shearing
Education correspondent
The GCSE results are similar to last year.
Here's a breakdown of the proportion of GCSEs marked at 4/C in each nation:
Hazel Shearing
Education correspondent
The national data giving us an overall picture of GCSE results and how they compare to previous years has just been released.
The overall GCSE pass rate has remained stable - with 67.3% of all grades across England, Wales and Northern Ireland at 4/C and above.
That’s only very slightly down from 67.4% last year.
What we’re seeing is a picture of consistency, broadly, after years of flux in 2020 and 2021 when exams were cancelled because of the Covid pandemic and results were based on teachers' assessments.
In fact, today’s pass rate is exactly the same as it was in 2019.
The proportion of top grades - marked at 7/A or above - has also remained steady, rising very slightly from 21.9% last year to 22% this year.
We’ll be digging into the data today to work out what’s happening beyond those headline figures.
Emily Holt
Reporting from Ormiston Sandwell Community Academy
Reagan has achieved merits in his business and sports science BTecs, as well as an eight in GCSE English, and is very pleased to have passed maths too.
"I got exactly what i needed, I'm delighted," he says.
"Maths was difficult and it was looking like I wasn't going to do well, but I'm so happy."
He says it feels great that he doesn't have to resit maths this year, and he is now going on to do three A-levels in psychology, PE and criminology.
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BBC Bitesize
For parents and carers, it can be hard to know what to say to your child on results day.
From worries to not getting the desired results and supporting your child, Bitesize Parenting has spoken to educational psychologist Professor David Putwain for his advice.
Putwain, a professor of education and early childhood studies at Liverpool John Moores University, says: "Let your children know that you’re available to help and plan options for what to do if they didn’t receive the grades they’d hoped for.
"Remember that education, and the pressures on children, are very different to what they were 20 or 30 years ago. It’s best to avoid a ‘what worked for me’ approach. Let your child lead.
"Schedule something nice for after results (before or after they’ve celebrated with friends) to acknowledge their achievement - whatever it was."
Olivia and her mother say they will probably celebrate by going out to dinner tonight
We've been reporting from Lees Brook Academy in Derby, where students were surprised by a confetti cannon as they arrived to collect their results.
Year 11 student Olivia tells the BBC: "It’s really exciting. I’m really happy with what I got - nines, eights and sevens."
She's thrilled to be heading off to sixth form. Her mum is chuffed too - she describes today as a "special moment for the whole family".
A fellow student says he's pleased he got the results needed to qualify for an apprenticeship, which he describes as “getting the hands-on work, as well as doing the education you need".
Image source, ReutersEarlier we heard from Education Secretary Lucy Powell that the government is introducing a new "stepping stone" qualification - between GCSEs and further studies - to break the resit cycle.
She's also been talking about this with BBC Radio 4's Today programme - and says it's not right that students resitting and struggling to pass maths and English are being branded as "failures" and thrown "to the scrap heap".
Powell says introducing a level one qualification for the subjects is not "lowering standards" for academic excellence.
She adds: "I profoundly reject the suggestion that a technical or vocational qualification is somehow for not-so-clever kids, or is a lower standard or expectation."
Watch: Seven GCSE exams, five months, one remarkable teenager
Patrick McCabe, 16, has cerebral palsy and completed all seven of his GCSEs in the space of five months using eye-gaze technology.
He was inspired to sit the exams after seeing former Leeds Rhinos player Rob Burrow appear on CBeebies' Bedtime Stories in 2022.
Burrow was the first non-verbal person to read the nightly bedtime story, using the same technology Patrick would later use to complete his exams.
Burrow died of motor neurone disease in 2024, aged 41.
Patrick, who describes himself as "hard-working, resilient and a little bit cheeky", says the process was challenging: "I wasn't able to write my workings out, so I had to do them in my head which was very difficult."
Bethan Lewis
BBC Wales family and education correspondent
Image source, YaroslavYear 11 pupil Yaroslav, who moved to Wales from Ukraine in 2022 with his mother, is among those getting his results this morning.
He has his sights set on becoming an engineer to "help my own country".
He says the support he received from teachers at Caldicot School in Monmouthshire has been "amazing", adding that he is looking forward to continuing to learn Welsh.
"I am a guest and I want to respect the language," he adds.
Vanessa Clarke
Senior education reporter
We've been following 16-year-old Sophia, from Derby, during the exam period this summer.
She was really nervous about getting her English language grade, but has just found out she's passed and is delighted.
She says she is "very shocked" as she worried she might have had to resit, and says she "can't believe it".
It means she can go on to do an apprenticeship in childcare.
She's hoping to celebrate with a meal out later with her mum Serena and dad Michael, who say they're very proud and "always believed she would pass".
