School pupils are busy sitting or preparing for their GCSE, AS and A levels with the second sat summer exams since the pandemic underway. Regulator Qualifications Wales has set grade boundaries midway between pre-pandemic 2019 and last summer's overall higher grades.
This is despite England planning to largely return to pre-pandemic grading levels next year and means exams in Wales will likely be graded more generously than those taken across the border. Students and schools can expect results to be lower for summer 2023 than summer 2022- when sat exams returned.
This summer's exam results will also be lower than the two pandemic years under teacher assessed grades, but higher than pre-pandemic 2019. But pupils and teachers were given some advance information of the topics, themes, texts or other content to expect for this summer's exams.
