GCSE grades suffer biggest fall for 25 years as Government clamps down on results 'inflation'

UPDATED More than 650,000 teenagers are collecting their results across the country this morning but fewer will get the grades they wanted this year. The Government has demanded tougher questions and marking in a clampdown on 'grade inflation'. Just over two-thirds - 68.1 per cent of entries scored A*-C this summer - down 1.3 per cent from 2012 - the biggest fall since the exam's birth in 1988.

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