After first changing in 2017, many parents and students were left confused by the new way of grading GCSE exams, and some will want to know how they compare with the old system ahead of tomorrow's ...

Thousands of students are finding out their GCSE results on Thursday, August 21. All the results from this summer's exams were sent out to schools on Wednesday and are usually available to pick up ...

The number of GCSE pupils scoring top grades has increased for the third year in a row. Nearly 26% of all results were grade 7 (the equivalent of an A) or higher - up from 21% in 2019. This is the ...

The proportion of GCSE students in England awarded top grades has almost returned to pre-pandemic levels as the number of pupils studying Chinese has doubled. More than half a million students ...

The number of female students choosing to sit GCSE computing in the UK saw a year-on-year drop in 2021. Female candidate numbers dropped from 16,919 in 2020 to 16,549 this year, despite the overall ...

GCSE grades have fallen in Wales as exam bosses steer results to a “gradual return towards pre-pandemic standards”. The overall pass rate A*-G has dipped slightly compared to last year and to the last ...

A dramatic rise in the number of GCSE and A-level papers wrongly marked by examiners this summer is revealed in figures released today. The figures, released by exams regulator, Ofqual, show that the ...

The number of students in England choosing computing as a GCSE subject has fallen in 2020, despite growing in popularity in recent years. Computing at GCSE level in England had 75,730 candidates in ...

Alison Hardy consults for the Design and Technology Association. There has been a worrying decline in recent years in the number of teenagers opting to take design and technology (D&T) at GCSE. While ...