Pupils across Tower Hamlets receive their GCSE results today.
More than half a million teenagers across the country will open their long-awaited results, which this year feature numerical marks for most subjects.
Doing away the A* to G alphabetical grade scale, Year 11s in England are marked according to a nine-point numerical system; ranging from top grade 9 to 1 at the bottom.
Advocates say the system makes it tougher to achieve an A* or equivalent.
On the numerical scale, an A grade is roughly equivalent to the bottom of a grade 7; a C grade the bottom of grade 4; and a G the bottom of grade 1.
The 1 to 9 scale will be used for more than 20 subjects following its trial for maths, English language and English literature results last summer.
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