The latest National Statistics on Examination Results produced by the Welsh Assembly Government.

The key points from the latest release are:

15 year olds

• 58 per cent achieved the Level 2 threshold, 3 percentage points higher than in 2006/07 and 10 percentage points higher compared with 1998/99;
• The average wider points score was 356, 12 points higher than in 2006/07.

17 year olds

• 94 per cent of those entering a volume equivalent to 2 A levels achieved the Level 3 threshold, the same as in 2006/07 but 3 percentage points higher compared with 1998/99.

The full release can be downloaded from the Statistics for Wales website.