Last year, more than one in five (22 per cent) UK GCSE entries was awarded a top grade, compared with 26.3 per cent in 2022. But it was higher than in 2019 — the last year that the summer exams were ...

Exam board fined £350k after sending students incorrect GCSE results - Those with incorrect lower grades were eventually ...

The first would be a numeracy GCSE – the “driving test” bit, which 100 per cent of students have to do, and need to pass. You would not be able to argue that the content was not relevant.

However, OCR, one the main boards for England and Wales, said yesterday volume and intensity of exams at GCSE is now 'too high', with the average pupil spending 31.5 hours sitting them.

GCSE exams in 2025 are scheduled to start from the week commencing Monday, 5 May and finish on Wednesday, 25 June. These are the most up-to-date exam dates set by each exam board, but they might ...

The support you need for your GCSEs 2025, Scottish Higher and Nationals, with BBC Bitesize. Revision content based on GCSE past papers, GCSE quizzes and more.

A Welsh exam board is facing a £350,000 fine for giving students incorrect GCSE results. The WJEC gave pupils in England the ...

This year's GCSE exams are well under way, and the first maths paper, one of three, has come and gone. It's an academically terse time for students across the UK - but how would you fare?

Test your knowledge with our quiz We've put together a mini quiz for our readers, featuring five maths questions based on a school AQA exam paper from 2024 that permitted the use of a calculator.

As thousands of Year 11 students are in the middle of sitting their GCSE exams, test your own knowledge to see if you've remembered what you were taught in your school maths lessons ...