![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/gcse-exam-results-due-after-long-stressful-wait-for-pupils/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/130884114_milly.png&description=Image caption, Milly and Alyssa are teammates at their local football club "I think the waiting process between the end of exams and actually getting the results is worse than doing the exams." Milly, 16, from Monmouthshire, is one of thousands of pupils in Wales getting their GCSE results on Thursday. Like A-level results last week , grades are expected to be lower overall than last year but higher than before Covid. School leaders said "a glide back" to 2019 levels post-pandemic was better than "a crash landing". Students will also receive Skills Challenge Certificate and level 1 and 2 vocational qualifications results on Thursday. Milly and her teammate Alyssa - both 16 - play for Raglan Junior Football Club in Monmouthshire. Training for the new season is already under way but the girls' thoughts are still on the exams they did back in June. Alyssa, who plays in centre midfield, said waiting for results had been a "long, stressful process" and had meant some "loss of sleep". Milly, a left back, has also found the wait until the end of August difficult: "It's kind of the thought that I can't do anything to change the results that I'm going to get and waiting helplessly - I find it really stressful." They were in Year 8 when the pandemic hit in 2020 and, while they did not have exams at the time, they said the disruption had a big impact. "When you're at home [with] no resources, you're very unmotivated to do anything and obviously we didn't have teacher support in the flesh", said Alyssa. Image source, Amie Dembicki Image caption, Teammates Milly and Alyssa say the wait for GCSE results has been a stressful one But as with A-levels, there has been extra support for pupils in Wales this year, including advanced information of some topics coming up in the exams. Meanwhile, grade boundaries are likely to be lower than in pre-pandemic years. Alyssa said Covid measures relieved "a little bit of stress" - but were they sufficient? "I think from an academic perspective,){kind=link}
“I think the waiting process between the end of exams and actually getting the results is worse than doing the exams.”
Milly, 16, from Monmouthshire, is one of thousands of pupils in Wales getting their GCSE results on Thursday.
Like A-level results last week, grades are expected to be lower overall than last year but higher than before Covid.
School leaders said “a glide back” to 2019 levels post-pandemic was better than “a crash landing”.
Students will also receive Skills Challenge Certificate and level 1 and 2 vocational qualifications results on Thursday.