A-Level results day 2023: Live updates and reactions as students across Wakefield, Pontefract, and Castleford collect their grades

If you have just missed a grade by a few marks then Prospects, the graduate careers website, advises first talking to your chosen university.

“While they’re under no obligation to reconsider their decision, especially with places so competitive, they may listen to you if you plan to appeal any grades,” its online guide to results day advises.

Alternatively, you could decide to go through the clearing process.

Course vacancies available through clearing will be listed on the Ucas search tool . There are usually more than 30,000.

You will need to contact any colleges or universities you are interested in to first find out if they will offer you a place, before adding a clearing choice to your Ucas application.

Clearing is how universities and colleges fill empty places they still have on their courses.

This could be if you have not got the grades you need to get into your first choice university or course.

But it could also be for other reasons, like if you have performed better than your predicted grades and want to change universities, or if you have decided to go to university after the application deadline.

In its online guide to clearing, the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas) encourages students to regard the process as “an opportunity for you to start again”.

However, most spare places fill up quickly, so you have to act fast.

Mental health support is available to students who did not get they grades they wanted.

OCR (Oxford, Cambridge and RSA) 2023 grade boundaries can be found here.

Peaeson Edexcel grade boundaries can be found here.

AQA grade boundaries can be found here.

Grade boundaries show the minimum number of marks you need for each grade, and are published on results day.

Once all exam papers have been marked, grade boundaries are set by senior examiners and assessment experts. It’s not until after all the marking has been completed that it’s possible to see how difficult students found the paper (for example, compared to previous years) and so take this into account when setting the boundaries. This means that a student who performed at a certain level should get the same grade regardless of which year they sat the exam.

For 2023, grading will largely return to normal. However, there will still be protections in place to ensure fair results after the disruption of recent years.

Young people across the district are receiving their A Level results today.

It is too early at this stage to know the overall results for the district, however, Wakefield Council’s cabinet member for children and young people has sent her congratulations to all students.

Councillor Margaret Isherwood said: “Well done to all the students who are receiving their A Level results today.

“I know a lot of hard work goes into studying for these exams and I hope everyone has achieved the results they need to support them in their future plans.

For anyone who did not get the results they expected, please contact your school or college who will be able to provide advice and talk through the many opportunities that are available.“I wish all students receiving their results today the very best for the future.”

For more help and advice, please visit https://www.gov.uk/careers-helpline-for-teenagers

Jeremy Clarkson has shared his anual advice to teenagers who may not have gotten the grades they wanted.

Wakefield College has wish all students picking up their results today a massive good luck.