Three in 10 Higher students got an A (see page 2)
[..] The highest number of students getting an A at Higher include Cantonese (100%), Simplified Mandarin (86.9%), Italian (69.9%) and Childcare and Development (62.1%).
Four in 10 Nat 5 pupils got an A (see page 2)
[,,] all 15 students who took Cantonese got an A. Simplified Mandarin (74.5%) and Spanish (58.8%) had A passes well above the average.
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The subjects most and least likely to award A-grades (The Herald, 4 August 2026) Note - subscription required to access the full article. [..] National 5 - at the top of the list is Spanish, in which almost 60 percent of students were awarded the highest grade. Places two and three on the list are also taken by languages, with German (56.4 percent) and French (53.3 percent). Higher - the largest proportion of students achieving an A-grade in 2026 was Spanish, where 48.8 achieved the feat.