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.
Ethan Edgar - St Vincent College, Gosport
Ethan Edgar, 18, got a B in criminology, Distinction in applied sciene, and a Merit.
Alannah Nolan - Fareham College
Alannah Nolan has two Distinction *s and one Distinction at Brecon. She is going to the University of Surrey to read international business.
A royal admission to St Andrews University
Lady Louise Windsor, the Queen’s granddaughter, 18, will be attending St Andrews University after receiving her A-level results.
Lady Louise – the 18-year-old daughter of the Earl and Countess of Wessex – will start her degree course in September.
She will be reading English, according to a Buckingham Palace source.
Portsmouth Grammar School Results
Several Portsmouth Grammar School students are heading to Oxford and Cambridge following a successful stack of results.
More than 95 per cent of teenagers at Portsmouth Grammar School secured a place at their dream university.
Bay House School results
Pupils at Bay House School in Gosport after celebrating their exam success ‘after bricking it’ about results.
In total, 38 per cent of students A*-A grades.
Portsmouth High School results
Pupils at Portsmouth High School are said to be ‘euphoric’ as they achieve impressive A-level grades.
All of the youngster at the high school got into their first-choice university, with 95 per cent of them achieving A* to C grades.
St Vincent College results
Youngsters have had a welcome surprise when receiving their results, despite the challenges thrown up since the Covid outbreak.
It was a first time exams were sat since 2019, but students at the school had a 98 percent pass rate for both A-levels and BTEC courses - 75 per cent achieving A* to C grades in three or more subjects.
City of Portsmouth College
Three students, Jasmin Lyne, Ellie Dunn and Hannah Priest discussing their results.
They achieved ABB, AAC, and BC Distinction, respectively.