Researchers from the University of Leeds surveyed 294 students to establish a link between eating breakfast and GCSE performance for secondary school students in the UK.
Students who said they rarely ate breakfast achieved nearly two grades lower than those who ate before school.
Almost a third (29 per cent) of students asked rarely or never ate breakfast on school days, while 18 per cent only ate breakfast occasionally. Some 53 per cent said they ate a morning meal frequently.
The latest national data for England found that more than 16 per cent of secondary school children miss breakfast.
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