IGCSE Results Day 2024 – Information For Students

Read our IGCSE Results Day FAQs for everything you need to know when getting exam results in August 2024.

However you did in your IGCSE results, you have all kinds of options ahead of you. A few options to explore include:

• BTECs
• Apprenticeships
• University
• Starting your own business

There are so many paths to personal success and a rewarding life and career.

CONGRATS! You’ve taken on IGCSEs like a champ and the best is yet to come!

Once you get your IGCSE results, give yourself some much-deserved time to celebrate, whatever your results were. You can then approach all your options for next steps with an open mind.

Remember that there are a million ways to happiness and a career and future that’s a good fit for you. You don’t have to put yourself on the spot and you have a lot of potential opportunities to explore with our Young Professional free skills training, Free Online Courses, Careers Hub and Young People Hub.

What to do next after IGCSEs

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What do you WANT and NEED when thinking about your next steps in life? And how do you get it? The free online courses below can help you explore your strengths and next steps that might work for YOU. Sign in as a young person to try courses by yourself, or as a parent or carer to explore the programme with your child. Get a certificate when you complete each course!

Home Education

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Doing an apprenticeship after IGCSEs

DID YOU KNOW? You can do an apprenticeship after you’ve done your IGCSEs. An Apprenticeship combines training with practical experience and a salary, and you can find different levels of Apprenticeships to match your education levels and interests.

An apprenticeship can lead to all kinds of opportunities. You could ease into a job or career. You could follow up your apprenticeship with college or university. You could do another next-level apprenticeship. You could even do a degree apprenticeship, where you can combine a next-level apprenticeship with study towards a degree qualification that your employer and the government pay for. It’s a great way to get a degree without student debt!

Vocational Qualifications

After your IGCSEs you can study for vocational and competency-based qualifications including awards, certificates and diplomas. These are all industry-recognised qualifications and they are awarded by organisations like City and Guilds, Edexcel (BTEC) and OCR.

If you want to get into an industry or swap exams for practical hands-on learning, vocational qualifications like BTECs or T-Levels (T Levels are in England only) can be a great way to build skills and knowledge along with a valid qualification. You can often build real-life experience and relationships with employers too, because many courses offer work placements.

Whether you’re interested in social care, art or digital design, business, technology, engineering, sales and marketing, construction, retail, law or pretty much anything else, there’s likely to be a vocational qualification that will take your career to the next step.