After a tricky exam question flummoxed a lot of England's pupils, it's worth pondering how hard the GCSE now is.

How does the GCSE maths exam work? The Edexcel GCSE maths exam is spread over three separate papers - each part is worth 80 marks and has a 33.3 per cent weighting.

Marcus du Sautoy meets a detective who uses maths to help solve crimes. Relevant for teaching Maths at KS4 and GCSE in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and National 4/5 or Higher in Scotland.

GCSE results day: Grade boundaries, how to appeal, and why some students are getting results through an app Thousands of GCSE students in England will get their grades in an app - but there are ...

I feel these students are being failed by the system – and so a rethink is in order. If it were up to me to revamp the maths GCSE, here’s what I’d do. I think there should be two qualifications.

Our maths experts at Save My Exams create colour-coded model answers which break down each question into easier steps to carefully guide users to the correct answer.

Maths has a bad reputation for one of being the most difficult subjects students have to study. Well, if you hate calculations look away now, as Save My Exams has discovered a GCSE question ...