Only in one in five who retake English or maths achieve a pass, calling into question the effectiveness of 'annual torture' ...

I decided to test just how much of GCSE maths I remember, and retake a past paper 10 years on. But how did I get on?

With pupils resitting Maths and English GCSEs at an all-time high, and fewer than a fifth of those passing, is the system ...

Think you could ace your GCSEs? Take this quiz using questions inspired by past GCSE exam papers to see how well you would score.

The green bars are for foreign exams. The dark blue bars are current "higher" GCSE maths papers, which contain the questions designed to tell higher aptitude children apart.

A GCSE maths question is so tough, only 15% of people have been able to correctly break it down and get the right answer. The other 85% were completely stumped by it. The arrival of May marks the ...

GSCE exams are set by different exam boards in England and Wales but, across the UK, students had a pass rate - achieving a grade of C/4 or higher - of 68.2 per cent, the lowest since 2019.

"If you're sitting GCSE Maths this year, this is one of the hardest types of changing the subject that you might get," the teacher said. "We want to make m the subject, but it appears on both ...

The green bars are for foreign exams. The dark blue bars are current "higher" GCSE maths papers, which contain the questions designed to tell higher aptitude children apart.

GSCE exams are set by different exam boards in England and Wales but, across the UK, students had a pass rate - achieving a grade of C/4 or higher - of 68.2 per cent, the lowest since 2019.