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Wait nearly over for GCSE pupils
21-08-2008 08:24:04
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Thousands of teenagers in Wales are preparing to find out the results of their GCSEs after two years of study.The official results will be published at 0930 BST.Last year 63% of entries were given the top A* to C grades, a slight rise on the year before, although the overall pass rate fell by 0.1% to 98%.Figures from 2007 also showed the gap between boys' and girls' achievements was narrowing, although it still remained significant.On average, girls outperformed boys, with 66.5% passing at grades A* to C, compared to 59.3% of boys.In 2007, the numbers taking the traditional foreign languages of French and German also fell prompting concerns about the future of language learning, but there was some more encouraging news with a rise in the numbers taking Spanish.
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