GCSE results day 2022 live: students discover exam grades amid warning of regional attainment gap | GCSEs

Good morning! And welcome to the Guardian’s GCSE liveblog, where I’ll be keeping you up to date with all the news.

This is the first year that students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will get GCSE results which – for the first time in two years – are based on public exams. Noting the serious disruption that students faced during the Covid pandemic, this year’s grade boundaries will be more generous, exam boards have said.

We’ll have a better picture of what has happened nationally soon, but we also want to hear your stories! Did you or a family member get the grades they wanted? How has the experience been? And what are your plans now? Please send lovely pics to me on [email protected] or tweet me on @lexytopping because it really is the best bit of doing the liveblog!