GCSE resits for English and Maths could be scrapped after the pass rate fell to its lowest level in a decade. The current model requires students who fail these two core subjects at GCSE level to ...

A 10-year-old boy from Greater Manchester has achieved the highest possible grade, a 9, in his maths GCSE. Chun Nok Eric Li, from Altrincham, sat a maths higher exam in June, despite still being in ...

The Government’s policy of making students resit maths and English GCSEs is “not fit for purpose” and it can undermine young people’s “confidence and motivation”, education leaders have warned.

But males overtake females in maths as colleges brace for even more resit students in English But males overtake females in maths as colleges brace for even more resit students in English Pass rates ...

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A primary school pupil has got top grades in GCSE maths after taking the exams five years early. Harry Clark, 11, took higher maths and further maths GCSEs this year – having previously gained a GCSE ...

The gap in GCSE results between boys and girls is now at its narrowest point this century. Hundreds of thousands of pupils in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have received their GCSE results today ...

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It is a nervous time of year for students who took their exams earlier this summer. A level results were dispatched last week and now it is the turn of GCSE students. Students in Wales, England, and ...

An 11-year-old schoolboy has taken his GCSE Maths five years early. Brian Idogun, from Swanley, sat the exam earlier this year as a Year 7 pupil at Orchards Academy in the town. Brian Idogun, from ...