GCSE headline statistics 2009

All available statistics are provisional as at August 2009 and are subject to appeals and re-marks.

GCSE Full Course - Headline performance figures 2009 (2008 figures are in brackets)

2009 Provisional	Overall	Overall
	north of Ireland	England, Wales and the north of Ireland
Entries	184,748 (192,360)	5,469,260 (5,669,077)
%A*	9.1 (8.9)	7.1 (6.8)
%A*-A	27.1 (26.4)	21.6 (20.7)
%A*-C	75.1 (74.5)	67.1 (65.7)
%A*-G	98.6 (98.4)	98.6 (98.4)

There was an increase of 0.2% on the 2008 results at grade A*, an increase of 0.6% at grades A*-C and an increase of 0.2% at grades A*-G in the north of Ireland. This compares to increases of 0.3% at grade A*, 1.4% at grades A*-C and 0.2% at grades A*-G in England, Wales and the north of Ireland collectively.
The north of Ireland remains ahead of the figures for England, Wales and the north of Ireland collectively, by 2.0% at grade A* and 8.0% at grades A*-C. There is no difference at grades A*-G.

2009 Provisional	Boys	Boys	Girls	Girls
	north of Ireland	England, Wales and the north of Ireland	north of Ireland	England, Wales and the north of Ireland
%A*	7.2 (6.9)	6.0 (5.7)	10.8 (10.8)	8.2 (7.9)
%A*-A	23.6 (22.1)	18.7 (17.9)	30.5 (30.3)	24.4 (23.5)
%A*-C	72.3 (70.9)	63.6 (62.1)	77.8 (77.8)	70.5 (69.3)
%A*-G	98.3 (98.1)	98.3 (98.1)	98.9 (98.7)	98.8 (98.7)

2009	Overall	Overall
	north of Ireland	England, Wales and the north of Ireland
Entries	11,299 (7,915)	20,484 (15,935)
%A*	3.1 (2.5)	3.3 (2.6)
%A*-A	20.5 (17.7)	17.1 (14.6)
%A*-C	70.2 (64.3)	66.1 (62.4)
%A*-G	98.0 (96.8)	98.1 (97.6)

There was an increase of 0.6% on the 2008 results at grade A*, an increase of 5.9% at grades A*-C and an increase of 1.2% at grades A*-G in the north of Ireland. This compares to an increase of 0.7% at grade A*, an increase of 3.7% at grades A*-C and an increase of 0.5% at grades A*-G in England, Wales and the north of Ireland collectively.
The north of Ireland remains ahead of England, Wales and the north of Ireland collectively, by 4.1% at grades A*-C but behind England, Wales and the north of Ireland collectively, by 0.2% at grade A* and 0.1% at grades A*-G.

2009 Provisional	Overall	Overall
	north of Ireland	England, Wales and the north of Ireland
Entries	1,284 (1,332)	96,117 (122,529)
%AA	2.1 (1.2)	1.3 (1.2)
%AA-AA	11.4 (10.9)	7.3 (6.9)
%AA-CC	67.2 (61.0)	49.2 (46.2)
%AA-GG	97.0 (97.7)	96.8 (96.1)

There was an increase of 0.9% on the 2008 results at grade A*A*, an increase of 6.2% at grades A*A*-CC and a decrease of 0.7% at grades A*A*-GG in the north of Ireland. This compares to increases of 0.1% at grade A*A*, 3.0% at grades A*A*-CC and 0.7% at grades A*A*-GG in England, Wales and the north of Ireland collectively.
The north of Ireland remains ahead of the figures for England, Wales and the north of Ireland collectively, by 0.8% at grade A*A*, 18.0% at grades A*A*-CC and 0.2% at grades A*A*-GG.

2009 Provisional	Overall	Overall
	north of Ireland	England, Wales and the north of Ireland
Entries	6,678 (6,352)	509,218 (528,325)
%A*	11.4 (10.6)	4.9 (4.5)
%A*-A	26.7 (27.3)	15.9 (15.2)
%A*-C	65.7 (63.2)	54.2 (53.0)
%A*-G	90.7 (86.7)	96.6 (96.0)

There was an increase of 0.8% on the 2008 results at grade A*, an increase of 2.5% at grades A*-C and an increase of 4.0% at grades A*-G in the north of Ireland. This compares to an increase of 0.4% at grade A*, an increase of 1.2% at grades A*-C and an increase of 0.6% at grades A*-G in England, Wales and the north of Ireland collectively.
The north of Ireland remains ahead of the figures for England, Wales and the north of Ireland collectively by 6.5% at grade A*, 11.5% at grades A*-C, but behind England, Wales and the north of Ireland, by 5.9% at grades A*-G.