UNITED KINGDOM - More than 600,000 teenagers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are receiving their GCSE results on Thursday as education inspectors predict the overall pass rate could fall due to new standards.
This will be the second time that GCSE results could fall since t was introduced in988. The fall could be due to attempts to "secure standards" along with changes to key GCSEs and moves by students to sit different exams.
Professor Alan Smithers, director of the Centre for Education and Employment Research at Buckingham University, said it was "likely" that results will drop this year.
Last summer, the proportion of GCSEs awarded at least a C grade fell for the first time in the exam's history, with 69.4% getting this grade or higher - down 0.4% on 2011.
There was also a fall in the proportion of GCSEs awarded the top grades and drops in the percentage of English, maths and science GCSE entries achieving passes at A*-C.
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