The number of pupils sitting resits this year was at an all-time high For almost a quarter of pupils taking Maths and English GCSEs this year, it wasn't their first rodeo. Some 23.4% of pupils taking ...

The government’s policy of making students resit maths and English GCSEs is “not fit for purpose”, education leaders have warned. Politicians have been urged to “rethink” how young people are ...

The policy of making school pupils resit GCSEs until they pass is "not fit for purpose", education leaders have said. This year, a record number of GCSE exams were compulsory resits, and calls are ...

For some adults, seeing numbers is enough to make them break out into a cold sweat, fuelled by bad memories of trying (and failing) to concentrate in maths class. Therefore, the thought of having to ...

A GCSE maths question is so difficult, it left 85% of people scratching their heads in a bid to try and answer it correctly. The month of May signals the start of exam season, with millions of pupils ...

A whopping 100 per cent of parents failed a GCSE maths question which asked them to solve the area of a polygon - following a summer which saw results drop as schools make their way back to exam-based ...

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 ...

Mathematicians thought that they understood how rotation works, but now a new proof has revealed a surprising twist that ...

For almost a quarter of pupils taking Maths and English GCSEs this year, it wasn't their first rodeo. Some 23.4% of pupils taking those exams were aged 17 and older - an all-time high. While some of ...