Grades since 2014
Share of mathematics entries at grade 4/C or above, and grade 7/A or above, across the UK. The shaded years are 2020 and 2021, when grades were awarded without exams.
Resits in 2026
In England, 219,135 GCSE maths entries in June 2026 came from students aged 17 and over, and 15.3% of them reached grade 4 or above. Across all ages in England the figure was 57.2%.
Students who were aged 16 or over on 31 August can resit GCSE maths in November instead of waiting for the following summer. November 2026 resits: exams ran from 2 to 11 November 2026, and results come out on 13 January 2027. In summer 2027, exams run from 10 May to 18 June 2027, with GCSE results on 19 August 2027.
Results by age, including how adults did, are on the GCSE resit results page. There is more on resitting in our GCSE resits guide.
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Boys and girls
Grade-7-or-above rate by sex. In 2026 there were 454,352 male entries and 458,058 female entries. No split was published for 2021 to 2023, so the lines break for those years.
Entries
Entries have grown 12.5% over the last five years.
Every year in numbers
| Year | Entries | 7/A+ | 4/C+ | 1/G+ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 912,410 | 17% | 57.3% | 97% | |
| 2025 | 893,198 | 16.6% | 58.3% | 97.1% | |
| 2024 | 878,165 | 16.9% | 59.5% | 97.2% | |
| 2023 | 821,322 | 17.5% | 61.1% | 97.4% | |
| 2022 | 782,783 | 20.1% | 65% | 97.4% | |
| 2021 | 811,135 | 21% | 69.4% | 98.3% | teacher-assessed grades |
| 2020 | 808,951 | 19.1% | 66.6% | 99.3% | centre-assessed grades |
| 2019 | 778,858 | 16.1% | 59.6% | 97.6% | |
| 2018 | 747,169 | 15.8% | 59.5% | 97.4% | |
| 2017 | 770,034 | 15.5% | 59.4% | 97% | |
| 2016 | 757,296 | 15.9% | 61% | 96.5% | |
| 2015 | 761,230 | 16.5% | 63.3% | 96.5% | |
| 2014 | 736,403 | 15.2% | 62.4% | 96% |
Past papers and grade boundaries
GCSE Maths past papers and mark schemes are listed by exam board, each a link to the board's own file. The marks each board set for every grade are on the GCSE Maths grade boundaries page.
About the data
Source: JCQ joint results tables, © JCQCIC. Provisional June-series results for the UK, all ages, as published each results day. England grades 9 to 1, Wales and Northern Ireland use letters, so the comparable metrics are JCQ's key grades: 7/A, 4/C and 1/G. Free to reuse our charts and computed figures with credit to Tutorperch and JCQ.