There has been a rise in the number of top GCSE grades in Northern Ireland.
Grades A* and A were awarded to just under 40% of entries, which is up from 37.1% in 2020.
As exams were cancelled for a second year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, pupils' results were based on grades calculated by schools.
Similar arrangements for A-levels saw a record number of entries awarded top grades on Tuesday but the rise in results at GCSE has been less dramatic.
Slight rise
About 29,000 students in Northern Ireland received their GCSE results on Thursday.
Others received results for BTec, vocational or entry level qualifications.
Teachers will have used evidence like classwork, homework, coursework and in-class tests to provide grades for pupils.
Grades calculated by schools were also used to give pupils their GCSE results in 2020 after exams were cancelled.
2019 was the most recent year in which a full exam series took place.
Just under a third of all GCSEs in Northern Ireland were awarded A* or A in 2019, and that has risen to 39.9% of entries this year.
About nine in every 10 (89.6%) entries were awarded A* to C grades, similar to 2020.
Girls continue to outperform boys in achieving the top grades.
Just under half of entries from girls in 2021 received A* or A grades compared to about a third of entries from boys.
In 2020, almost one in every eight GCSE entries (12.4%) in Northern Ireland was awarded the top A* grade, a rise from 8.1% of entries in 2019.
More than one in three GCSE entries (37.1%) received the top A* or A grades in 2020.
The vast majority of GCSEs in Northern Ireland are taken by pupils through the exams board CCEA and results were available from 08:30 BST on Thursday.
Many pupils went to their school to pick up results as unlike A-levels, they cannot receive them online.
About 98% of entries are through CCEA, with the remainder through English and Welsh exam boards.
That means some pupils in Northern Ireland received results in the form of numbers as well as letters.
That is because GCSEs in England are graded numerically from nine to one.
Pupils use their GCSE results to progress to A-level, courses in further education, training or employment.
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