Qualification results in England: summer 2025
Source: gov.uk (2025-10-01)

Results issued for GCSEs, AS and A levels, vocational and technical qualifications included in performance tables (applied generals, tech levels, technical awards and technical certificates), and the technical qualification (TQ) components of T Level qualifications.

Summaries

For short summaries of this information, see the following blog posts:

GCSE and level 1 and 2 results 2025 at a glance (https://ofqual.blog.gov.uk/2025/08/21/gcse-and-level-1-and-2-results-2025-at-a-glance/?utm_source=Statistical_release_GCSEResults&utm_medium=Statistical_release_GCSEResults&utm_campaign=L1_2GCSEResults2025)

Level 3 results analysis 2025: Key trends and context for teachers (https://ofqual.blog.gov.uk/2025/08/14/level-3-results-analysis-2025-key-trends-and-context-for-teachers/?utm_source=Statistical_release_GCSEResults&utm_medium=Statistical_release_GCSEResults&utm_campaign=L1_2GCSEResults2025)

Key headlines

This summer, 7.14 million results were issued in England for level 3, level 1/2 and level 2 general and vocational and technical performance table qualifications (GCSEs, AS, A levels, technical certificates, technical awards, applied generals, and tech levels). This includes 1.1 million results for level 3 qualifications and 6.03 million results for level 1/2 and level 2 qualifications. For vocational and technical performance table qualifications this only includes results at pass or above.

On 14 August 2025, 864,810 results were issued for AS and A levels and on 21 August 2025, 5,661,970 results were issued for GCSEs.

For vocational and technical performance table qualifications, between 1 March and 31 August 2025 a total of 612,440 results at pass or above were issued, including:
- 210,640 results for applied generals (level 3)
- 29,065 results for tech levels (level 3)
- 12,475 results for technical certificates (level 2)
- 360,260 results for technical awards (level 1/2 and level 2)
This summer, 313,190 students received results for A levels and 1,019,005 students received results for GCSEs.

This summer, 11,920 students received results for the TQ within T Levels. Ofqual does not regulate or collect data on the industry placement, which is also part of the overall T Level. This is why the number of students receiving results for the TQ within T Levels can differ from overall T Level results (https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/provisional-t-level-results/2024-25).

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Corrections

On 1 October 2025, this release was updated to include an additional 4,670 technical award results that were originally missing in the data supplied to Ofqual. These results were late cash-in awards from the January series, issued to students towards the start of the 1 March to 31 August 2025 period covered by this release. This correction applies only to technical award qualifications in 2025 and is small in relation to the total results reported for those qualifications.