FOR years students have familiarised themselves with GCSE exams during their time in secondary education – but before that students sat O levels. But when did this change in exams happen and what was ...

Top GCSE grades have dropped slightly this summer but are still higher than pre-pandemic levels. The share of GCSE entries across England, Wales and Northern Ireland awarded a grade 7 or above – ...

There are set to be big changes to A-levels, AS-levels and GCSEs in Northern Ireland. The Education Minister Paul Givan has said that pupils are being "over-tested" in school. His department is ...

The proportion of GCSE entries awarded top grades has fallen from last year but is higher than before the pandemic – while students in England were left worse off than those in Wales and Northern ...

Teenagers in England have shared emotional videos on Tiktok of themselves bursting into tears at their GCSE results - in many cases, far lower than the inflated predicted grades they were led to ...

GCSE results day "will not be as enjoyable" as it was during the pandemic as around 300,000 fewer top grades could be awarded this week, an education expert has said. Professor Alan Smithers, director ...

The under-performance of boys at GCSE level has been labelled as “chronic” and should be treated as a “major issue”, a leading education professor has said. Professor Alan Smithers, director of the ...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government has announced a major U-turn on A level and GCSE exams in England, scrapping an algorithm to decide results and basing them on teacher predictions instead. It ...

Total entries for this summer’s GCSE and A-level exams have risen. Ofqual has released provisional entries for GCSE and A-level summer 2023 exams (Gareth Fuller/PA) German, music and drama are ...

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Seventeen-year-old Lily said she liked doing AS-levels and it had taken the pressure off her A-levels [BBC] There are set to be big changes to A-levels, AS-levels and GCSEs in Northern Ireland. The ...