Pupils choose their GCSE options towards the end of Year 9, to study in Year 10 and 11. In some schools, however, all or some GCSE syllabuses are studied over a three-year, rather than a two-year, ...

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

An estimated 60,000 GCSE pupils could face the gruelling task of having to resit their English and maths exams as hundreds of thousands fewer top grades were handed out this year following efforts to ...

Proposals have been revealed to revamp Wales GCSEs as part of the new curriculum being introduced in schools across the nation. Pupils in Wales would no longer take three separate science GCSEs under ...

Tory education spokesman Damian Green has called for "an immediate, quick and fully independent inquiry" into remarks by a former chief maths examiner about this year's GCSE results. The shadow ...

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The introduction of new maths AS and A-levels will be delayed by a year until September 2017, the government says. The move follows fears students would struggle to bridge the gap between the current ...

It comes as Action for Children today revealed young people referred to social care at any point in their childhood were twice as likely to fail the subjects than their peers. The charity said this is ...