As A-level results day draws to a close, we round up today’s top stories. 1. Top grades up for the first time in ages… There was a of pupils getting top grades at A-level in England for the first time since 2010. 2. …but the proportion getting A*s and As in reformed A-levels dropped How have the 13 newly changed A-levels, which feature all their exams at the end, changed pupils’ results? . (Clue: it wasn’t great news) Paul Whiteman from the NAHT has warned against direct comparisons with previous years 3. Boys are good at German, girls are good at… We picked the best nuggets of info to put into our annual list of . In particular we did some whizzy analysis on gender (where do girls outperform boys?). We also spotted a for politics A-level, alongside a slump in history. 4. Did grades in your subject go up or down? Find out more about , using these amazing tables drawn up by our features editor Cath Murray. : we asked the exam boards to explain why. 5. People said boys would do better at the new A-levels – but did they? For the first time in two decades, we show that , confirming what academic Alan Smithers 6. Gender on the agenda BREAKING: Exam boards are looking at in the annual release of GCSE and A-level statistics. This is in response to increases in the number of children who identify themselves in non-binary ways. 7. Secondary moderns in the spotlight Over in our Bulletin section, we have stories and results from secondary moderns, which, while sometimes ignored, are critically important. There’s a of a pupil turned down for a grammar school place and now celebrating superb results. Plus another school has its . Save Save Save Save