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GCSEs

October 2024

  • Keir Starmer speaks during the General Debate of the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

    Keir Starmer needs to ensure educational opportunities for all children

    Letters: Prof Anna Mountford-Zimdars urges the prime minister to think not only about his own children but everyone else’s too

September 2024

  • A young boy doing prepared reading at the front of a class

    Let’s speak about the importance of oracy

  • Aerial view of an invigilator walking past rows of pupils wearing school uniform sitting an exam

    Experts raise concerns over ‘unreliable’ marking of GCSE English

  • Malorie Blackman

    UK English curricula should focus on ‘inclusive and diverse’ stories, author says

  • Student using a calculator in an exam

    IGCSE maths preparation is easier than GCSE

  • There is no evidence that GCSEs are harder than IGCSEs

  • Where are writers of colour in the school curriculum?

28 August 2024

  • Pupils sitting an exam

    The real unfairness and scandal of GCSE exams

    Letters: Readers including Corinna Jones and Mary Gildea respond to articles about last week’s GCSE results

25 August 2024

  • Happy teenager on yellow background with her smart phone

    It’s brat summer when those of us in gen Z use slang terms

  • Smiling students pose with sheets of paper on a wood-panelled staircase.

    The Observer view on the attainment gap in England’s GCSE results

22 August 2024

  • Students reacts after opening their GCSE results at the City of London Academy Southwark.

    The Guardian view on GCSE results day: mind the disadvantage gap

  • Ella Baron on GCSE exams stress – cartoon

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Ella Baron on GCSE exams stress – cartoon

  • 16-year-olds across England, Wales and Northern Ireland receive their GCSE results

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    'I just screamed when I saw them': GCSE results return to pre-Covid levels – video

  • Pupils at Ark Pioneer academy in Barnet, north London, receive their GCSE results

    England’s GCSE results show ingrained social and regional inequality post-Covid

  • ‘I’m really proud’: GCSE pupils tell of relief at results after Covid disruption

  • GCSE results for 16-year-olds return to pre-Covid levels

  • Gap between top GCSE grades at private and state schools grows – as it happened

  • Study arts and humanities because you love them (and so do employers, by the way)

    Xaymaca Awoyungbo

21 August 2024

  • Pupil at single desk sitting exam paper, seen from behind

    Ministers urged to act over numbers failing English and maths GCSEs

    Study finds serious impact on life chances and mental health of young people amid calls to reassess resits policy in England

19 August 2024

  • Zoe Williams

    What does it mean to be 16 today? It is totally different to when I was growing up

    Zoe Williams
    On the day I opened my GCSE results, my parents weren’t looking over my shoulder, cameras poised. Lucky really, because I’d just smoked 20 cigarettes, writes Zoe Williams
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