The papers today are full of critiscism of GCSE and the government continual dumbing down of education standard in a perverse attempt to claim rising standards.
When I was studying you could see the syllabus content was falling, for A level maths I remember going back in the papers year by year got progressively harder!
Although I do not see any point in maintaining a "gold" standard that loses relevance by trying to stay in the 1950s I was shocked to read that a 20% exam score could lead to a grade C!
The reports had high acheiving students given a test from the 1960s with predictable failure especially on numerical based work in science.
They also mention the iGCSE - apparently an international standard that is in widespread use but not recognised by our education system.
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