Pupils choose their GCSE options towards the end of Year 9, to study in Year 10 and 11. In some schools, however, all or some GCSE syllabuses are studied over a three-year, rather than a two-year, ...

In 2024, a brand new suite of Made-for-Wales GCSEs were launched, which became available for teaching in September 2025, so if you're choosing your GCSE Options from 2025 onwards, you'll be one of the ...

GCSE resits for English and Maths could be scrapped amid the pass rate falling to its lowest level in a decade. The current model requires students who fail these two core subjects at GCSE level to ...

In England, students who do not secure at least a grade 4 are required to retake the subjects during post-16 education (Gareth Fuller/PA) (PA Wire) The Government’s policy of compulsory resits in the ...

An estimated 60,000 GCSE pupils could face the gruelling task of having to resit their English and maths exams as hundreds of thousands fewer top grades were handed out this year following efforts to ...

Tory education spokesman Damian Green has called for "an immediate, quick and fully independent inquiry" into remarks by a former chief maths examiner about this year's GCSE results. The shadow ...

The introduction of new maths AS and A-levels will be delayed by a year until September 2017, the government says. The move follows fears students would struggle to bridge the gap between the current ...