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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

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

Alessia Emanuele (left) and Harriet Williams (right) from Northampton High School collect their results.

Live GCSE results day 2022: Live updates of all the results across Northampton

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

Nearly one in five of the county's secondary school students were absent during the last week of March, according to official figures

Teachers fears over GCSE students missing school under ‘ignoring Covid plan’

First News: A beary good idea!

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

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...

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...

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

Guilsborough Academy on West Haddon Road, Guilsborough. Photo: Google

GCSE results day 2020: Guilsborough Academy filled with 'pride and delight' by s...

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

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 sessions will be streamed online for free.

Northants students can be part of a free online operating theatre experience

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...

Head at Manor School Sports College in Raunds Jay Davenport said prices have hiked to 17 a bottle.

Northamptonshire head teachers blast suppliers hiking hand sanitiser prices duri...

Beatrice Hoffman (centre)

Talented sculptor gives help to students of all ages at Daventry school

DSLVs principal Simon Cotton

Daventry school '˜making good progress' in turnaround, say inspectors
A Daventry school is making good progress in turning itself around, said an education watchdog.

Should schools be fined over GCSEs?

Schools ‘should be fined’ if pupils fail to meet key GCSE targets

Campion School in Bugbrooke celebrated a bumper crop of GCSE results today - with one pupil taking home 11 A* grades.

Star GCSE pupil takes home 11 A* grades at Campion School in Northamptonshire