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 ...

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The Government’s policy of making students resit maths and English GCSEs is “not fit for purpose” and it can undermine young people’s “confidence and motivation”, education leaders have warned.

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The Government is considering scrapping compulsory English and maths resits at GCSE level. Pupils who fail these subjects at GCSE, aged 16, are made to resit them if they stay on for sixth form, since ...

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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 ...

Pupils in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will receive their GCSE and Level 2 vocational and technical qualification (VTQ) results on Thursday. The results will help them progress to sixth form, ...

After revising long and hard for their exams over the past couple of months, British teenagers have finally received their GCSE results today. Year 11's results day makes for a tense spectacle for ...

Hundreds of thousands of GCSE students in England, Northern Ireland and Wales have received their grades. The pass rate has fallen slightly compared with 2024, with 67.4% of all grades in England, ...