Girls came out top of the class, with Jersey College for Girls celebrating their highest marks in the school’s history, while Beaulieu had 100% success with girls getting five or more GCSEs, including Maths and English.
Pictured: JCG girls celebrate with their results.
This year, however, students won’t only be watching out for a flush of A grades, but 7s, 8s and 9s in English Language, English Literature and Mathematics – the first three subjects to introduce a new marking system.
They come as part of assessment reforms pushed through by former UK Education Minister Michael Gove in a bid to make GCSEs more challenging.
Those three subjects saw students focus on final exams taken at the end of the course, rather than a series of modules as is usually the case.
Pictured: The Department of Education explains the grading reforms.
They will be marked from 1 to 9. Grade 4 will indicate a standard C pass mark, while 7 and 8 are A and A* respectively. Only a fraction of Britain’s very top students with near-perfect results will secure the coveted 9.
Over the years, more exams will adopt the new style of marking.
The results come off the back of a strong batch of A Level results last week. The overall pass rate for Jersey was 99.5%, which is in line with 2016, and above the 97.9% pass rate for England.