After five years of secondary school education, hundreds of thousands of Year 11 students are eagerly receiving their GCSE exam results today. Pupils across the UK sat various examinations through to ...

When I was at my single-sex grammar in the North of England plenty of my contemporaries studied maths and further maths to A-level. Some did additional maths. No, I never got it either: maths, further ...

Tens of thousands more 16-year-olds than last year will need to resit their English and maths GCSE exams. More than 167,000 students in England received grade 3 or lower on their maths paper, about 21 ...

Education unions have called for the policy of compulsory resits in the two subjects to be scrapped. In England, students who do not secure at least a grade 4 are required to retake the subjects ...

Colleges in England say they are having to expand class sizes and hire exam halls to cope with a rising number of pupils taking compulsory GCSE resits. Some are rehiring former teachers, according to ...

Experts warn a number of areas face "acute" competition for sixth-form places - singling out one major city THOUSANDS of teenagers will have to resit their GCSE English and Maths exams after fewer ...

Maths is far from the favourite subject of most school students. There are those who love it and relish solving sums, but for many people, it remains a sore subject they struggle with well beyond ...

Compulsory maths and English retakes speak of a system that ignores pupils’ real talents. But hope is on the horizon That time of year approaches when we ritually sacrifice 40% of our 16-year-olds to ...

Get ready for your maths exams with CCEA past papers and mark schemes, as well as top tips for your revision and exams in the subject. GCSE maths: Exam-style quiz by topic Try this quiz based on GCSE ...

Each year, around 200,000 pupils in state-funded schools in England do not achieve a grade four or above in both English and Maths GCSE at age 16: about one-third of all students. The Department for ...