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Robert Pattinson: teacher told me not to bother with drama GCSE
Robert Pattinson – who’s said to be worth an estimated $27m – is quick to realise that there’s not always much sympathy for people living in the public eye.
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The number of students passing their GCSEs or scoring top grades has edged up for the second year running – despite claims that the exams have got harder.
More than half a million students got their GCSE results today – amid the biggest shake up to the exams in a generation. And it wasn’t just a challenge for the teenagers who sat the tests: grades are gradually being changed across England to a new 9-1 system – as part of a drive to…
Earlier we spoke to the schools minister Nick Gibb. I began by asking him what grades he got for his GCSE’s.
New research suggests that children hoping to excel in their GCSEs should turn off screens, with television watching ‘most detrimental’ to grades
GCSE students complaining about exams is nothing new – but a maths question about sweets has prompted students to vent their anger on Twitter.
The latest exam results show a rise in the number of A* to C grades overall, but grades in English have fallen slightly, as exam chiefs say GCSE reforms have played a part in the changing trends.
It was a tense morning for GCSE students opening their results at Severn Vale School in Quedgeley, Gloucester. Would more rigorous exams mean lower grades?
Robert Pattinson – who’s said to be worth an estimated $27m – is quick to realise that there’s not always much sympathy for people living in the public eye.
Classic American novels Of Mice and Men and To Kill a Mockingbird could be dropped from the new GCSE English exams by Education Secretary Michael Gove in favour of works by British authors.
“Sir Isaac Newton would be turning in his grave”: physicists are appalled at the gravity of equation errors in the government’s new GCSE combined science syllabus.
Teenagers are to be graded from one to nine instead of A* to G in the biggest shake-up of GCSEs in the exam’s history.
Teenagers who fail to achieve a grade C or above in GCSE English and maths will have to continue to study the subjects under new government rules.
Fee-paying schools are turning to the alternative exam as they continue to outperform state schools in bagging top grades.
As more than 700,000 teenagers across the country receive their GCSE results, National Careers Service adviser Vicky Coleman runs through the most common queries with Channel 4 News.
As GCSE results roll in, 16-17 year old school leavers face a daunting unemployment rate of 40 per cent. Channel 4 News looks at their options.