In Pictures: Nerves, tears and hugs as students collect exam results

In Pictures: Nerves, tears and hugs as students collect exam results

Hundreds of thousands of youngsters have received their results after sitting the Government’s tough new GCSE courses.

More than one in five (20.8%) UK entries scored one of the three top grades, and just 837 teenagers scored a clean sweep of the highest grade in every subject they sat.

GCSE results
Students show their emotion as they open their GCSE results at Robert May’s School in Odiham, Hampshire (Victoria Jones/PA)

GCSE results
From left, Emily Fox, Isabel Drugan and Becky Haddon get their marks (Jacob King/PA)

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Alexia Selzer with her mother Adriana (Jacob King/PA)

GCSE results
Hugs of delight for Emily Fox, left, who got all grade 9s (Jacob King/PA)

GCSE results for pupils of St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School
Pupils at St Mary Redcliffe opening their GCSE results (Claire Hayhurst/PA)

GCSE results
A celebratory high five from Grace Murray, right, to Lucy Garside (Joe Giddens/PA)

GCSE results
Laurence Herring, right, and Gerald Ikazoboh (Joe Giddens/PA)

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