Next time you want to ask a question like “whose bright idea was it to put exact trig functions into Foundation tier?”, you’ll know who to get in touch with

GCSE Maths November 2025 broken down by age and sex

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For GCSE Maths in November 2025 boys comprised only 43.5% of the resit cohort, but achieved a slightly greater percentage of Grade 4+ results

Data from www.jcq.org.uk/examination-...

GCSE Maths November entries by exam board: Eduqas’ two-paper option and OCR’s very low grade boundaries continue to prove to be attractive options; Pearson’s entry has increased by AQA have suffered a drop in entries, as they did last summer

Only 1.6% of the entry (around 1150 students) achieved Grade 6 or better, so once again I’d question the wisdom (and expense) of four exam boards producing 11 different papers for such a small cohort

Here’s what that looks like graphically for Grade 4 and above

Now with added Eduqas

I guess they’re not running on railway time

There are still too many students entered at Higher tier, but the absurdly low boundaries at grade 4 tend to encourage many centres to put students in anyway

Back in 2017, Gove/Ofqual made GCSE Maths way too hard. Now they no longer care, boards have bit by bit made papers more accessible (and so more popular) with hikes in grade boundaries as a result. Edexcel have been playing catch up with AQA on this, but proportions at each grade stay much the same

It’s a race to be first between online exams and nuclear fusion

Lots of new (and old) materials on the emporium!