Students in Wales are among hundreds of thousands in England, Wales and Northern Ireland receiving their GCSE results this morning.
There were 293,865 GCSE entries in Wales for summer 2026, which is 6% lower than in summer 2025, according to exam regulator Qualifications Wales.
Results Expected to Mirror 2025
Today's results are expected to be broadly similar to 2025. Top grades for GCSE results in Wales rose very slightly in summer 2025, along with all grades, in what was the second "normal" exam year since pandemic disruption.
In 2025 there was an overall pass rate A* to G of 96.9% and just under one in five GCSE results achieved the best A*-A grades. That is not expected to change much this year in the third "normal" exam year post-Covid.
New Made-in-Wales GCSEs
Some Year 10 learners will receive results in some units of the new made-in-Wales GCSEs — Cymraeg language and literature, English language and literature, business, computer science, geography, maths and numeracy, and religious studies. These are unit results towards the final grades for those GCSEs next year and not whole qualifications.
On those initial unit results, exam regulator Qualifications Wales said: "The policy intent is for overall qualification results to be broadly similar when they are published for the first time next year."
