Teenagers impacted by coronavirus receive their GCSE results

The grades have been decided by teacher assessments

Students receiving their results
Author: Hannah NorburyPublished 12th Aug 2021

Thousands of children across West Yorkshire are opening their GCSE results today.

They've been graded by teacher assessments, rather than exams.

Teachers looked at a range of evidence to decide grades, including mock exams, coursework, essays and classroom tests.

A-level grades were decided the same way, and on Tuesday many people opened their envelope to find better grades than they had expected.

Hear all the latest news from across the UK on the hour, every hour, on Greatest Hits Radio on DAB, smartspeaker, at greatesthitsradio.co.uk, and on the Rayo app.