TODAY students across the country have been receiving the results they've been waiting for all summer.
This year is the first time pupils have been given their results according to the new number system - similar to the old O-Levels.
Each year secondary school leavers congratulate one another with hugs and have broad smiles for The Mail Cameras.
Today we look back into the archives at GCSE results days gone by.
There are photographs here from the 1990s and early 2000s.
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