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Exams

19 August 2024

  • Students sitting their GCSEs

    GCSEs should be branded separately in England, Wales and NI, expert says

    Professor says diverging content and results make move necessary for the exams to be compared accurately

17 August 2024

  • Martha Gill

    A-levels are far from perfect, but in the exam hall every pupil – rich or poor – is equally afraid

    Martha Gill
  • Sammy Wright, head of school at Southmoor Academy in Sunderland.

    Book of the day
    Exam Nation by Sammy Wright review – testing times

16 August 2024

  • Students in an exam hall.

    Time to bring back the popular AS-level

    Letter: The decoupling of AS- and A-level courses mean fewer students are benefiting from taking an extra subject in their first year of sixth form and expanding their horizons, writes Steve Millar

15 August 2024

  • A students show her results to an adult

    Pupils achieve best A-level results in a generation but regional gap widens

  • Bridget Phillipson with students receiving their A-level results

    The class of 2024 aced maths. Take an A-level challenge to see how you compare

  • Bridget Phillipson standing next to a group of pupils holding their results

    More maths, more regional disparity: England’s A-level results in five charts

  • Pupils from the NPTC Group of Colleges in Neath, South Wales, collecting their A-level results on 15 August 2024

    The Guardian view on A-level results day: great expectations have been met

  • Boost to A-level maths reflects student desire for digital literacy, experts say

  • These A-level students pulled off something remarkable. But close up the results tell a troubling story

    Nadeine Asbali

  • A-levels results: pupils in England achieve best results since 2010

  • Vast majority of A-level students secure first choice university places – as it happened

  • Top A-level grades are up – but worrying regional disparities remain

14 August 2024

  • The number of pupils picking exclusively Stem subjects has doubled to 14% from 7% in 2014-15.

    A-level students choosing narrower range of subjects after Gove changes

    Study shows fewer students in England combining humanities such as history or music with sciences or maths

12 August 2024

  • Bridget Phillipson leaving Downing Street after a cabinet meeting

    Education secretary warns of ‘baked-in’ inequality in English school system

  • illustration of graduate figure outlined in wood-work vice

    The big idea
    The big idea: should we abolish exams?

10 August 2024

  • Mary Watts, left, and Tallulah Huggins with their A-level results at Brighton Girls school last year, when A-level students last year had the lowest chance of getting into a first-choice university.

    More UK students set to get into first-choice university than in previous years

    As international intake dwindles, leading institutions become less cautious about offers post-Covid

6 August 2024

  • Five students jump in the air with their results

    Scotland exam results: pass rate falls as attainment gap widens across board

    Day begins in chaotic fashion with thousands of pupils receiving blank emails instead of their exam results

June 2024

  • OpenAI logo is seen on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen displaying output from ChatGPT

    Researchers fool university markers with AI-generated exam papers

    University of Reading project poses questions for ‘integrity’ of coursework and take-home student assignments

May 2024

  • Pupils in a classroom sitting an exam.

    Girls do better in exams at all-girls schools than mixed, research finds

    Pupils in girls’ schools in England outperform girls with similar records and backgrounds in mixed schools, analysis says
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