A-level results 2024

A-level top grades were higher this year with almost one in ten awarded an A*.
Results were up because they were the first cohort since the pandemic to sit GCSE exams and performed better than last year’s school-leavers, the head of the exams regulator suggested.
9.3 %of all A-levels in the UK were awarded an A*, higher than the 8.9 per cent last year and 7.7 per cent in 2019, the last year before Covid-19.
Private schools did particularly well, with 49.4 per cent of results at A or above, up from 47.4 per cent last year.
Girls are achieving grades of A and above in greater proportion than boys in all but 12 subjects.

Most popular subjects
Mathematics remains the most popular A-level subject, taken by the most pupils, with more than 100,000 entries.
The top ten subjects remained stable, maths was followed in popularity by psychology, although entries fell by 2.4 per cent compared with last year, while sociology — the seventh most popular — was down by 6.5 per cent.

Subject 
Mathematics
Psychology
Biology
Chemistry
History
Business Studies
Sociology
Art & Design subjects
Physics
Economics

The top 20 highest-performing private schools in the UK

Based on the percentage of A*-A grades achieved in A-levels in 2023 (with over 75% A*-A)

1. St Paul’s Girls’ School, Hammersmith
2. Guildford High School
3. St Paul’s School, Barnes
4. North London Collegiate School, Edgware
5. City of London School for Girls, Barbican
6. Tonbridge School
7. King’s College School (KCS), Wimbledon
8. Magdalen College School, Oxford
9. Westminster School
10. King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham
11. Brighton College
12. Godolphin and Latymer
13. Cardiff Sixth Form College
14. Highgate School
15. City of London School
16. James Allen’s Girls’ School
17. Wycombe Abbey
17. Queen Ethelburga’s College
18. Latymer Upper School
19. Withington Girls’ School
20. Sevenoaks School

Based on The Times 15/08/2024.