{"id":727099,"date":"2026-08-04T10:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T10:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/727099\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T10:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T10:34:12","slug":"scottish-exam-results-day-2026-pass-rates-rise-as-students-find-out-their-grades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/727099\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish exam results day 2026: Pass rates rise as students find out their grades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pride and relief for Glasgow pupils as results come inpublished at 08:57 BST<\/p>\n<p>08:57 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-qs9kpv-Contributor etflsgg2\">James Cheyne<br \/>Reporting from Glasgow<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Laith has short curly brown hair and smiles at the camera. He wears a black school blazer, white shirt and purple tie and appears to be in a library\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/a583cc10-c4bf-40ec-a29f-8c5dcd9cdd71.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1729\" height=\"973\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Laith got 4 As at Higher level<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As the minutes ticked down towards<br \/>\n08:00, a quiet tension settled over the library at All Saints Secondary School in<br \/>\nGlasgow.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It\u2019s always strange for the pupils who agree to be part of our<br \/>\nBBC coverage, undergoing this moment of pure tension with all of our cameras<br \/>\nand microphones pointed at them &#8211; probably just adding to the layers of nerves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But when the emails started to drop, they melted into smiles and relief. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Laith, who is 18, got 4 As at Higher level, meaning he is off to study law at<br \/>\nGlasgow Caledonian University. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: \u201cI\u2019m so proud of myself, just kind of<br \/>\nspeechless because I worked so hard.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gift has long brown dreadlocks and smiles at the camera. She wears a black school blazer and white shirt and appears to be in a library\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/02403cf2-c748-4eba-a7b8-0ca4e7b3b2ba.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1703\" height=\"958\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gift hopes to go on to study psychology<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gift, aged 16, got 4 As and 2 Bs in her Highers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She will return to school for one more year before<br \/>\nhopefully going on to study psychology at university.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was super scary, super anxious,&#8221; she says. &#8220;Then the moment the email came<br \/>\nin, I was over the moon.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pride and relief for Glasgow pupils as results come inpublished at 08:57 BST 08:57 BST James CheyneReporting from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-727099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}