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The summer exam season is coming up quick

Six expert tips for revising from home during the half-term holiday

These schools were among the country's highest performers in the most recent school year

England's top 20 secondary schools for 2025 named in league table

Resits take place much like standard GCSE exams

Everything you need to know about GCSE resits

Students celebrating exam results

Nottinghamshire students celebrate GCSE success this summer

Where pupils can get free food to celebrate GCSE results day (Photo: Macus - stock.adobe.com)

Restaurants offering free food to GCSE students on results day

Single sex grammar schools took out most of the top spots across England (Photo: National World/Google)

The 15 top-rated 'super' secondary schools in England

Special measures to make sure students sitting major exams weren't unfairly impacted by the pandemic have gradually slowed down (Photo: National World/Getty/Adobe Stock)

Do pupils still get Covid consideration in exams? All you need to know

There's still nearly two months to go until students will find out how they did in their GCSE exams (Photo: National World/Getty/Adobe Stock)

GCSE marking system explained as pupils await exam results

Disadvantaged pupils are falling further behind in GCSE levels, new research shows. Photo: Other

Disadvantaged pupils fall further behind their peers at GCSE following pandemic

Grace McEvoy was all smiles as she achieved four grade 9s, one grade 7 and two Level 2 distinction * grades. Photo: Bulwell Academy

Bulwell Academy students thrilled at GCSE successes

Here’s what you can do if you fail your GCSE exams. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images) (Photo by Peter Nicholls/Getty Images)

How to resit your GCSE exams if you fail

Today is GCSE results day but not everyone is happy with the outcomes the first time - here’s what you can do.

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Coun Tracey Taylor has congratulated all of Nottinghamshire's GCSE students as they get their results today. Photo: Submitted

Councillor congratulates all GCSE students as they get their results

NHS nurse Kelly Foster, who failed her GCSEs

Woman becomes high ranking senior NHS nurse despite failing GCSEs

Students are gearing up for GCSE exams

Quiz: Can you answer these GCSE maths questions

Students were all smiles at Bulwell Academy after getting their GCSE results

Bulwell Academy students all smiles after first GCSE results for three years

Nandos is giving out free food to students

Nando’s is giving away free food to students on results day this month

These are the areas with the smartest students in England

First News: A beary good idea!

Students can choose A-Level and GCSE exam topics next year - Ofqual and educatio...

National principal Martin Brailsford with student Dylan

National GCSE students looking forward to a bright future

A number of big restaurant chains - including Nando’s - are offering free food deals to A Level and GCSE students this week (Photos: Getty Images/Flickr)

Where to get free food on GCSE results day 2021 - including Nando’s, Las Iguanas...

Coun Jason Zadrozny says GCSE results day is a day for celebration

Council leader says GCSE results day is a time for celebration

Post 16 Centre, Valley Road, Worksop. A-Level results. Picture: Pupils going through clearing. w100819-1o

Nottinghamshire County Council praises students as they pick up A-Level exam res...

MPs say terms like “white privilege” may have contributed towards neglect of poorer white pupils (Photo: Shutterstock)

Poorer white pupils suffer years of neglect due to terms like ‘white privilege’,...

GCSE and A Level grades will be decided by teachers this year, exams watchdog Ofqual has announced (Photo: Shutterstock)

GCSE and A Level results will be decided by teachers this year - despite 2020's ...

GCSE, A Levels and SATs exams in England will be replaced by teacher assessments...

'Alternative arrangements’ will be made for GCSE and A Level exams this year - w...

GCSE and A Level exams will be adapted in 2021 to help students - including adva... Helen Johnson

Child abuse has increased during lockdown - and neglected kids are being impacte...

File photo of a general view of pupils sitting an exam. Most A-level and GCSE exams in England will be delayed by three weeks next year due to the pandemic, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has confirmed. Photo: PA

Going ahead with exams next year will disadvantage Northern pupils

Who can you spot having fun at the Clumber Concerts at Clumber Park from years gone by

Clumber Concerts over the years

Poorer pupils in Nottinghamshire are falling some 18 months behind their richer classmates. Photo: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Poorer GCSE pupils in Nottinghamshire nearly two years behind richer classmates

The exam board is regrading all of the results (Photo: Shutterstock)

Here’s why BTec results have been delayed - and how grades will be calculated

A Level and GCSE results will now be based on teachers' assessments

A Level and GCSE results u-turn has been welcomed

Ofqual is reviewing its process for appeals (Photo: Shutterstock)

Ofqual has suspended its criteria for pupils wanting to appeal their A levels an...

Pupils will be able to use their mock exam results as the basis for an appeal (Photo: Shutterstock)

This is how to appeal your GCSE and A level results

Grades will be decided in a different way this year due to cancelled exams (Photo: Shutterstock)

A Level students will not be awarded final grades lower than their mock exam res...

This year's grades have been marked differently due to school closures caused by the pandemic. (Shuttertsock)

Students unable to appeal exam results this year are being handed a ‘life senten...

Exams across the UK were cancelled in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, meaning grades this year have been calculated in a different way (Photo: Shutterstock)

Here’s when GCSE results will be out in England - and how to collect grades

The tool features three to five minute revision videos presented in a Netflix-style layout (Photo: Shutterstock)

GCSE students can access a free learning resource while schools are closed - her...

How many of these GCSE exam questions can you answer correctly? (Photo: Shutterstock)

Quiz: Can you get these GCSE exam questions right?

Could you pass GCSE maths? (Photo: Shutterstock)

Quiz: Can you pass this maths GCSE exam?

Many schools in the UK are currently closed, and it's not just the pupils who are pleased about it (Photo: Shutterstock)

The funniest, most gleeful tweets from teachers who are off work because of the ...

Quiz: would you pass the new, harder GCSE maths exam?

Ten Nottinghamshire schools are on the list.

REVEALED: The best schools in Nottinghamshire according to The Times

The best performing schools in Nottinghamshire, according to the Sunday Times, have been revealed.

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COLUMN: Plenty of options for youngsters after results

Peter Richardson, chairman of D2N2

Migrants make animpact on economy

A level results are released tomorrow.

COLUMN: Let's look out for those who don't get the A level grades they want

REVEALED: Nottinghamshire schools GCSE performance tables

Ockbrook School GCSE results, students Jessica Langton, Lauren Nutty, Francesca Muir-Harris, Rebecca Elvidge, Hannah Moore, Hattie Walker-Smith, Thea Hannigan and Nyasha Mteta.

GCSE students excel at Ockbrook School

Artist John Pettitt has a new exhibition at Hucknall Library.

Plumber turned painter's pictures

Cultural delights for academy pupils

REVEALED: The best secondary schools in North Notts

Samworth Church Academy Mansfield, Principal Barry Found pictured with students

School heads slam results tables showing plumeting GCSE results as misleading

Simon to appear at city book festival

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