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A table of all GCSE subject grade distributions for boards offering subjects in England (four images)
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Graham Cumming
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Graham Cumming
@MathsNot
Former examination board Maths Adviser. Occasional comments about UK exams. No longer posting here.
Essex, England Inscrit le Mart 2020
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@CottinghamAmber You can find more detailed data for Pearson (eg by tier, sex, age, centre type) on the emporium; I don’t think other boards (or indeed JCQ) provide it
mathsemporium.com/category/gcse-…
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@MathsNot Do you know by any chance what percentage of Foundation students passed in 2025? For Edexcel Pearson?
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GCSE Mathematics grade distributions 2017-2025 for Pearson/Edexcel, AQA, OCR and Eduqas
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@CottinghamAmber The tables are collated from the exam board results statistics pages:
qualifications.pearson.com/en/support/sup…
aqa.org.uk/exams-administ…
ocr.org.uk/administration…
eduqas.co.uk/home/administr…
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@MathsNot Hi, Do you have a link to the source where this data came from? Many thanks in advance
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@TsuiAllen I think exam boards will try out a few online exams out (probably not before 2030) and then default back to what we have now; as the quote in article says, “people who want to do bad things are probably working at a quicker pace”.
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Totally with you @MathsNot Although I recently saw an article suggesting some GCSE and A-Level Examination Boards might be ready to carry out online assessments as soon as 2030, think the wider education community will never move to online summative assessment methods.
Graham Cumming@MathsNot
Can A levels and GCSEs be far behind? theguardian.com/business/2025/…
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Can A levels and GCSEs be far behind? theguardian.com/business/2025/…
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@pearson Last summer, IGCSE Maths in the UK accounted for ~6% of the total GCSE/IGCSE Maths entry for Year 11, but of the Grade 9s awarded, ~30% went to students of IGCSE Maths. I guess this is what you pay your 20% VAT for!
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@pearson You’ll be pleased to know I finally have a reply - in June 2025 there were 38,761 awards made for IGCSE Maths to UK students (mostly at Higher tier, but 6012 at Foundation) - down a bit on last year’s 39,304, so perhaps some Year 11s were hauled out of private school after all
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Hello @pearson @pearsonedexcel - can you tell me why all the grade statistics information has disappeared from your website?
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Something for those #coremaths lessons
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
ROBERTS: If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you to take their product. So it raises the question -- how much of last night's speech was hyperbole? LUTNICK: No. What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring the drug down to $13, if you're looking at it from $13, it's down 7 times ROBERTS: It's not a 600% cut LUTNICK: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now. So $13 would have to go up 700% to get back to the old one. So it all depends on when you look at it.
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The best option for existing exam boards would be for there to be an a separate start-up boutique online exams only board - then if the exams go wrong, they take all the blame and disappear, but if exams go right, the other boards can fight to buy it out
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Ofqual too have shown themselves to be reluctant about online exams. They (and by extension the DfE and Secretary of State) will get the rap if the online exams, most likely, go wrong and the exam board(s) will get the credit if they go right
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None of the exam boards really want to introduce online exams at scale - they’ll be expensive, time-consuming and with a good chance of going wrong (95% right wouldn’t be good enough, probably not even 99%), and they carry a large risk of reputational damage
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“And teach me how / To name the bigger light, and how the less, /
That burn by day and night…” - oops, wrong RSC
EdCentral@EdCentral
Chemistry curriculum fails to reflect digital reality, RSC warns | TES tes.com/magazine/news/…
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@MathsladyScott Pure Maths in particular… thetimes.com/uk/education/a…
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@MathsladyScott Agreed! Maths really needs to be last on the list
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Really pleased to hear that mathematics is not in the list. I still feel that when pen is put to paper more magic happens than when you press keys on a keyboard? For mathematics and English? 🤔😃
Graham Cumming@MathsNot
Well that was a quick turnaround tes.com/magazine/news/…
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Looks like there was a successful petition in South Korea theguardian.com/world/2025/dec…
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