Students at Christ the King high school faced up to the challenge after battling through a tough few years. Patryk Janowski, from , came to the UK in 2017 from his native Poland and could not speak a word of English when he joined Christ the King High School in year seven. Patryk said he started to pick up the language and felt more confident by the time he was in Year 11. The student is now going to his university of choice after getting two Cs and a B in his A Levels. He will be studying law with criminology at Edge Hill University in . He was one of thousands of students across the country who received their exam results today. When the visited Christ the King this morning students slowly trickled in as nervous parents waited outside. Patryk told the : "At the start, I was struggling with everything because of the language barrier, and in year 10 I started using my English when talking to people. "To be honest I was not nervous when I got my results because I already got an email this morning to say I got in. I got into the place I wanted and I'm really happy that the teachers helped me to progress. It is just a really exciting subject and something I want to do in the future" Emma Hall also faced her own set of challenges after she was diagnosed with dyslexia at the start of the year. While Emma said she wished she had found out about her dyslexia earlier she "faced up to the challenge". Emma said it was one of the most "stressful years of her life", but her exam success means she will go on to study primary education at Edge Hill. This year saw a return to pre-pandemic grade boundaries. Figures showed that in the North West of England 24% of students were awarded the top grades, compared to around 34% in 2022 and 23.5% in 2019 - the last pre-pandemic year. This proved a challenge for some students with all sitting exams for the first time. One such student was Amy Wright, who got two A*s, an A and a B. While most would be knocking on the doors of Oxford, Amy has decided to take a different approach and is doing an degree apprenticeship at solicitors Napthens. She said: "I'm so glad with my results and I feel really good but I was nervous when I opened the letter before. I'm glad it has paid off and it was so hard especially as I did four A Levels. I think I will be going out tonight." Bogi Arvai got three Cs in criminology, English, and media while the results could have bagged her a university place she has her heart set on being a vet. She has decided to take a gap year and study science A Levels online while working. Bogi said she needs just one more year of hard work and everything will pay off. She said: "I want to be a vet and I have my heart set on it so I'm studying extra A Levels online so I can get on to a university course. It is just one more year so it should not be to bad." Helen Cunningham Head of sixth from said: "It has been so hard for some of the pupils here especially coming out of covid and we had some pupils who said they did not even want to take full A Levels. But we so proud of all of them."