Admissions service, Ucas, says 49% of 18-year-olds were accepted with lower grades than those advertised.
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Katherine Sellgren
BBC News education reporter
A-levels
Nia Medi
BBC Wales News
A consultation will take place later this year on how pupils should be tested in the future.
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How a community of online students on YouTube helped people studying for their exams.
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At 16, teenagers face a number of training or education choices - but how have these decisions changed over time?
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Students snap up record number of university places through clearing a day after the A-level results.
Read moreThousands of students collect their A-level results as the proportion picking up top grades falls.
Student gets A-level results after dad's cancer ordeal
East Midlands Today
Natasha Groocock's dad was going through cancer treatment while she was studying for her A-levels.
But the 18-year-old Loughborough College student has done him proud, achieving two Bs and a C.
She's off to Nottingham Trent University to study law.
The number of Manx students earning top grades at A-level dropped by 10% after a record high in 2018.
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Stars from the arts world urge the government to make creative education accessible to young people.
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Eddie Playfair, of the Association of Colleges, and Helena Poole, of Which? University, offer advice.
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