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If your child is in a secondary school in England, Northern Ireland or Wales, they will be preparing to sit their GCSEs. These standardised exams offer them qualifications in their chosen subjects.

Thousands of students are finding out their GCSE results on Thursday, August 21. All the results from this summer's exams were sent out to schools on Wednesday and are usually available to pick up ...