Hundreds of thousands of A-level students across England, Wales and Northern Ireland will receive results today.
Students can typically collect results in person from their school or college from 8am, though some institutions may send email notifications.
Each exam is graded on a scale from A* to E, with grade boundaries showing the minimum marks needed for each grade.
Assessment specialists at each exam board decide these boundaries annually, and they are only published on results day.
Students unhappy with their results can follow an appeals process. They must first approach their school or college, which will contact the exam board to request a mark review on their behalf.
The exam board will then consider whether a correction is needed. If you are still not satisfied, you can ask for a review from the exams regulator Ofqual.
For those who only just miss out on the grades they need to get into a particular university or college course, admissions offices may still offer you a place. You can also try to apply for a different place through clearing.
Students can use the clearing process if they fail to achieve the grades for their conditional offer, fail to receive any offers they want to accept, decide after 30 June to apply for university, or achieve better grades than expected and want to change universities.
The process opens on 5 July and closes on 20 October.
According to The i, UCAS head Jo Saxton predicts a record number of 18-year-olds will secure first-choice university places this year.
Students can also resit some or all exams if they're unhappy with their results.
Sources used: "PA Media", "BBC", "WalesOnline", "Daily Mail", "Independent", "Liverpool Echo", "Kent Live", "The i" Note: This article has been edited with the help of Artificial Intelligence.
