GCSE results day 2026: Grades from 8am, online from 11am

It's a big day for thousands

BBC News reports that the app has launched for 750 schools in England.

Students have been encouraged from the Department for Education to collect results in person anyway, so they can speak to teachers on the day.

Meanwhile, Scottish pupils got their Scottish exam results earlier in the summer under a separate system.

How your GCSE results are graded

Grade boundaries are confirmed today by the exam boards: AQA, Pearson Edexcel, OCR, CCEA and WJEC, while they are not fixed year to year.

Senior examiners weigh each paper's difficulty, how candidates performed and the quality of the answers, then set the boundaries once marking is nearly complete.

For example, if a 2026 paper proved harder than its 2025 equivalent, fewer marks could be needed for the same grade. The 9 to 1 system has been in place since 2017.

What to do if your GCSE results aren't what you hoped

The best route, for anyone staying in education, is usually their old school or the sixth-form centre they are moving to.

As per the Mirror's live updates, further education colleges offer some GCSE subjects, particularly English and maths, and private exam centres take external candidates

Boundaries land through the day, and grades appear in the app from 11am.

And our GCSE maths quiz is waiting, if you fancy finding out how much of it you would still pass.