A-level, T-level and BTEC results day 2022: Look back at the pictures, videos and updates of Portsmouth area students celebrating stunning results
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Hundreds of thousands of students are receiving grades across the country.
People at Portsmouth Grammar School are celebrating successful scores, with more than 95 per cent of teenagers securing their dream university place.
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This is the first cohort of students to sit exams since the coronavirus outbreak.
They are expected to face tougher competition for university places this year, with institutions known to have been more conservative in their offers this year.
The number of students accepted on to UK degree courses has fallen this year, Ucas figures show.
A total of 425,830 people have had places confirmed, down 2 per cent on the same point last year.
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In 2021, a record 435,430 people, from the UK and overseas, had places confirmed.
This year’s figure is the second highest on record, and up 16,870 compared with 2019 when exams were last held.
The number of students from the most disadvantaged backgrounds to gain places on courses is 6,850 this year, up by 3,770 in 2019.
Reporters at The News are across Portsmouth, Gosport and Fareham covering results day.
All the latest updates will be posted in this live blog at the bottom of this article.
Make sure to check in regularly to stay fully informed.
Portsmouth A-level, T-level and BTEC results day
Key Events
- Students across the Portsmouth area celebrated their grades.
- This cohort sat the first exams since the Covid-19 outbreak.
- The grades were lower than last year, but higher than the 2019 results.
T-levels - Fareham College
Fareham College principal Andrew Kay was pleased with a 100 per cent pass rate of the first cohort of T-level students.
‘We expected them to be good but the results were particularly good and we are very pleased,’ he said.
St Vincent College, Gosport
A selection of results from St Vincent College, Gosport.
Rachel Chen - St Vincent College, Gosport
Rachel Chen, 18, is one of the highest achievers of the college - achieving an A in a graphic design, a Distinction* in law and a Distinction in business.
She is going to be attending Queen Mary University of London to study business management.
She said: ‘I don’t really know what to say but I’m just so happy. I’m excited that I am going to London.’
Alison Kent, Rachel’s business teacher, was extremely proud of her.
She said: ‘I am really proud of Rachel, I know how hard she has worked. She has a really exciting future.’
St Vincent College, Gosport
Paityn Cooper achieved an A* in criminology, a Distinction in performing arts and a Distinction* in law.
She is going to be attending the University of Central Lancashire to study forensic science and criminology investigation.
She said that she struggled with online learning during the lockdown because trying to complete a performing arts course while at home was especially difficult.
She said: ‘For everyone starting college, make sure you revise, keep on doing small amounts constantly and don’t worry about exams. They aren’t that bad.’
Tia Pugh, who was accompanied by her younger sister, Elisha Pugh, has got a Distinction in performing arts, a Distinction* in law and a distinction in health and social care.
She said that her studies were harder when at home because her sister, who has a rare condition called four q chromosome deletion, would also be at home and need care. Although her mum is her primary career, Tia would often help out.
Principal Ryan Gibson - UTC Portsmouth
UTC Portsmouth principal Ryan Gibson said making allowances for Covid-19 disruption to welcome underperforming GCSE students had paid off in the majority of instances.
He added: ‘We have had students we wouldn’t accept it on to courses in a normal year. I have spoke to one student this morning and normally his GCSEs wouldn’t have got him a place here, but we gave him a shot.
‘He’s now going on to study astrophysics at the University of Nottingham.’
UTC Portsmouth has reported 30 per cent of its grades reaching A* or A level, with 19 per cent of students gaining AAB or higher results.
Sophia Cooper - Fareham College
Sophia Cooper collected a distinction in Level-3 creative media, allowing her to go into the second tier of the course next year.
‘My dream is to go to Solent University and do TV production and then go into the industry,’ she said.
T-levels at Fareham College
Judith McArdle, lecturer for T-level computing at Fareham College, gave her reaction to the T-level results.
She said: ‘They are amazing results and show the hard work that has gone into it.
‘This was a new qualification and the way students worked on placements reflected their results.
‘Getting real life experience pushed their grades up.’
Andy Grant - principal of St Vincent College, Gosport
Andy Grant has given his reaction to the grades at his college on results day.
Oxbridge colleges ‘less flexible'
Oxbridge colleges are ’less flexible’ compared to other universities this year around accepting students, a headteacher at one of the country’s leading academy chains has said.
Alison Downey, the principal of Ark Putney Academy in south London, said high-achieving teenagers were finding it tougher to get accepted into Oxford and Cambridge universities than in previous years.
She said: ‘It has been difficult but as in any circumstance the children who have worked the hardest have got what they deserve.
’There’s a fair distribution of grades and for us it’s all about making sure the children get to the right destinations.
’We’re seeing flexibility from the universities across the board. I think it’s less flexible at the top-end for the elite universities (such as Oxbridge), but I think that’s to be expected given how many children deferred last year.’
A number of students in the Portsmouth area are celebrating their results and secured places at Oxbridge universities.