That's it. I hope you have been informed, entertained, but most of all, educated by our coverage of A-level results today. Here are the main points of our coverage.
The overall pass rate (grades A*-E) was 97.6%, down from 97.9% last year. It is the lowest pass rate since 2010, when it was also 97.6%.
Reforms to A-levels that placed more emphasis on final exams and tightened assessment criteria were this year extended to two-thirds of the total curricula.
Boys led girls in the top grades for the second year running. The proportion of boys who got A or higher was 26.6%, 0.4 percentage points higher than girls (26.2%).
Chinese overtook German as the third most popular foreign language, as entry figures showed an overall decline of 5% in the numbers taking foreign languages.
And here are two more graphics that tell more of the story of the relative strengths and weaknesses of boys and girls at A-level.
Computing enjoyed a surge in popularity in 2018 with a 24% increase in the number of students taking the subject across the UK this year compared to last, writes Pamela Duncan, our data journalist.
Although the majority taking the subject are boys (88%) the proportion of girls taking the subject crept up from 9.8% in 2017 to 11.8% this year.
Participation among boys and girls grew in other STEM subjects including chemistry and physics (up 3.4% on the previous year), biology (up 3.1%) and mathematics (up 2.5%).
Conversely, there were drops in participation in geography (down 11.3%), English literature (down 4.6%) and history (down 2.7%).
Northern Ireland outperformed their English counterparts with a higher proportion of students achieving A*-A grades and A*-C grades.
Almost 85% of Northern Irish students sitting their A-levels achieved a C grade or better compared to 76.8% in England and 76.3% in Wales.Northern Ireland outperformed their English counterparts with a higher proportion of students achieving A*-A grades and A*-C grades.
Almost 85% of Northern Irish students sitting their A-levels achieved a C grade or better compared to 76.8% in England and 76.3% in Wales.
With sweltering temperatures and that distractingly bright sun, this year's A-level takers faced a hard grind through hours of exams this summer. But for pupils at Taheedul Islam girls' high school in Blackburn, conditions were particularly difficult, they told Helen Pidd, our north of England editor.
Entries to physics A-level rose again this year, despite an overall decline in the number of students taking A-levels, notes the Institute of Physics.
We at the IOP have been working hard on increasing participation by girls. With support from the Department for Education (DfE), we have been running projects in schools, where we work with the whole school, its science teachers and groups of girls.
Whilst there is still work to do, an increase of 8.4% in the number of girls studying physics in England indicates genuine improvements in removing barriers.
Female students made up 22.2% of physics A-level entrants - up from 21.5% in 2017, and to the highest proportion since 2009. Bucking expectations of the revised curriculum, girls slightly outperformed boys, with 30% achieving an A* or A grade compared to 29.5% of of boys. On top of that, 71.5% of females achieved a C or above compared to 69.6% of males.
Girls continue to outperform boys in most subjects, the notable exceptions being mathematics and chemistry. There are large disparities in entry rates, around four-fifths of entries to physics are from boys, in English literature just one-fifth are.
The upward trend for entries into STEM subjects continues and now account for over a third of all entries. But modern foreign languages continue to slide with French down 8%, and German down 16%.
Even the remarkable rise in the number of unconditional offers from universities - up 40% in the past year - appeared to have had little effect, despite fears that recipients of such offers might decide take it easy on the exam prep.
That may well have happened in some cases, but at a national level the proportion of entrants achieving an A* or A is largely unchanged, although there has been a slight dip in the very highest grade. It does however, raise questions about how our universities admissions system should operate.
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The number taking STEM subjects has risen by 5.5 per cent since 2017. There remains a large gender gap, however, in these subjects.
21,038 more boys than girls completed physics A Levels, with boys accounting for 78 per cent of those sitting the exams.
20,913 more boys than girls completed maths A Levels, with boys making up 61 per cent of those sitting the exams.
Exasol, an analytic database company, looked at Ucas data, and came to similar conclusions. But strikingly they found that the numbers of young women going on to study computing had increased five-fold in five years - a major inroad into a traditionally male field.