• Drawing a single straight line of best fit using a ruler. • Balancing data points evenly above and below the line of best fit. • Ignoring outliers and extending the line across the full range of ...

The "relentless" cycle of pupils in England failing and then resitting their GCSEs in maths and English is "simply not working", a leading education union has said. The Association of School and ...

The GCSE pass rate in England, Wales and Northern Ireland has fallen slightly but the grades gender gap is the narrowest its been this century, today's results show. The overall GCSE pass rate has ...

You might be forgiven for glancing at this year's GCSE results and thinking not much has changed. And sure, if you're just looking at the pass rate across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, that ...

Jivyan Dhruva has the qualification which most pupils take at the age of 16 (Picture: SWNS) A boy has been awarded top marks in his maths GCSE, despite taking the exam nine years early. Jivyan Dhruva ...

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Hundreds of thousands of pupils received their GCSE grades and technical awards on Thursday, with an increase in the proportion of top grades. Pupils celebrate their GCSE results at Leeds Grammar ...

A nurse says she is "over the moon" to have passed her maths GCSE having tried again after 40 years. Joanne Mulholland, 56, from Gateshead, last resat her maths O-level in 1987 and failed three times.

Here’s some advice if you haven’t achieved a grade four or above in maths, English or both on GCSE results day. While grades three and below aren’t fail grades, a grade four in these subjects is often ...

GCSE results in Wales at the gold standard A* to C, and overall results have fallen slightly in the third "normal" exam year since pandemic disruption. Results for the very top A* grade have risen by ...