What occurs after outcomes come out?

About 145,000 pupils throughout Scotland are receiving their examination outcomes.

Here is all the pieces you’ll want to know on SQA outcomes day.

Pupils in Scotland obtain their outcomes on Tuesday 6 August.

The outcomes cowl Nationals, Highers and Advanced Highers, in addition to the extra vocational National Progression Awards, Skills for Work Awards, and National Certificates.

The outcomes had been despatched out by first-class put up however many college students opted to obtain their grades digitally.

Text messages and emails had been because of be despatched to candidates who had an activated MySQA account from 08:00 onwards.

However, pupils acquired emails with a clean house the place their outcomes ought to be. Some candidates additionally didn’t get texts initially, resulting in anxious waits.

If you could have opted to obtain your outcomes by put up, it is going to depend upon when your mail usually arrives.

Courses at National 5, Higher, and Advanced Higher are graded A-D.

National 2, National 3, and National 4 programs usually are not graded — the items that make up these programs are assessed as go or fail.

Grade boundaries range from yr to yr and the precise percentages for 2024 will not be revealed till outcomes day.

However, the SQA units preliminary grade boundaries for his or her assessments at 50% for a C, 70% for an A, and 85% for an Upper A.

These boundaries are the start line for deciding the ultimate grade boundaries every year.

A grade D is a go.

If you obtain a grade D outcome this normally means you scored between 40 and 49% within the course evaluation.

Candidates who rating lower than 40% usually are not awarded a nationwide course and can obtain a no award outcome.

The variety of pupils attaining an A, B or C grade at National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher was down throughout the board.

The Higher A-C attainment dropped from 77.1% in 2023 to 74.9%, whereas the A-C attainment for National 5 exams fell from 78.8% in 2023 to 77.2%.

The largest drop in A-C grades got here from Advanced Highers, which fell from 79.8% in 2023 to 75.3%.

The SQA famous that there had been completely different approaches to awarding in every year since 2019 which didn’t enable for “meaningful conclusions to be drawn on changes in education performance”.

There is plenty of help obtainable if you aren’t getting the outcomes you might be hoping for.

The SQA’s candidate recommendation line will open at 08:00 on outcomes day and can keep open till 18:00.

Guidance employees at your college will even be available to offer assist.

If you could have a conditional provide for college or faculty that you do not meet, you may apply to Ucas’ clearing course of which is utilized by universities and faculties to fill empty locations.

Skills Development Scotland (SDS), the company which helps coaching and expertise for work, will even function an recommendation line from 6 to 9 August.

If you need assistance and recommendation in regards to the subsequent steps in your profession or training or when you did not get the outcomes you hoped for you may cellphone the SDS outcomes helpline quantity on 0808 100 8000.

Yes, and yearly 1000’s of pupils do.

Before anybody sits an examination their college, faculty or coaching centre submits estimated grades for each candidate to the SQA.

If you do not suppose your grade is appropriate, you must first speak to your college or faculty.

It will contact the examination board in your behalf and ask in your marks to be reviewed.

You may submit your personal attraction.

Appeals shall be topic to a marking evaluation – a verify that marks have been added up and submitted accurately and a verify that the marking meets the nationwide normal.

An attraction might be prioritised you probably have a conditional place at college or faculty, or are in coaching or employment that depends upon your grade.

The deadline for precedence appeals is Tuesday 13 August, or Tuesday 27 August for different appeals.

In 2023, over 39,000 of the 540,920 certificated grades had been appealed.

A complete of three,980 attraction requests resulted in an improve whereas 5 resulted in a downgrade.

This means the success fee is round 10%.