@theipaper: Education leaders are calling for GCSE students to no longer have to study Maths and English if they fail. This year, the number of resits taken reached an all-time high. Nearly a quarter of all exam entries were resits, which is a 14% increase from last year. Currently, it is compulsory for full time students on a 16-19 programme to continue studying Maths and English if they have not achieved a grade 4 or above. Education leaders say the Government’s resit policy is “not fit for purpose” and have called for it to be scrapped. Jill Duffy, chief executive of OCR exam board, said “Less than a fifth of resitting students achieved the grade 4 they need to break out of the resit cycle” calling it a “resit crisis”. She has called for “fundamental reform to maths and English secondary education […] to support those who fall behind in these crucial subjects.” #resultsday #gcses #edexcel #ocr
Failing maths and English is genuinely just a lack of effort, it’s not difficult for anyone who tries.
2025-08-21 15:07:00
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fadeyrl2 :
Are you kidding me I just left school with a fail in maths 😭😭😭
2025-08-21 21:01:25
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iᥫ᭡ :
Maybe don’t make the grade boundaries that high
2025-08-21 22:15:35
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sean.lvp_1 :
“I only got all 8’s! I wanted all 9’s”
2025-08-22 11:20:38
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josh.dewsbury :
Tell me why the boundaries are so high
2025-08-21 20:21:17
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CHLOE💛 :
Maybe stop raising the grade boundaries then🥰
2025-08-22 09:45:48
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teegan5514 :
For y’all saying it’s not that hard try doing it with dyslexia…it’s really hard most of the time I can’t remember stuff no matter hard I try to remember and I get no marks for my spelling . And its hard to put sentences together to make sense bc it’s make sense in my head but it doesn’t when someone els reads it . So yes it is very heard especially if you have learning difficulties
2025-08-21 20:27:22
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Brooke 💋 :
Me rn
2025-08-21 22:55:41
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Lisa Holden :
My daughter has done maths and English 5 times and each time she has got a 3, she is obviously at that level, she is doing an apprenticeship and now has to sit her maths again for that as she is not 19 until January.
2025-08-21 21:07:04
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jupi (multishipping truther) :
or maybe, and hear me out here, address the mental health epidemic in schools and actually tackle why people need to resit?
2025-08-21 20:09:56
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P14n3t :
so this is why grade boundaries done us
2025-08-21 18:25:04
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Duckies🏴 :
WHY NOT THIS YEAR
2025-08-21 22:13:57
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willxlfc :
Raising boundaries by 20 marks and they wonder why more people fail 🥀
2025-08-22 14:00:30
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★ :
PLEASE I DONT WANT TOO RESIT MATHS😭🙏 IM TIRED OFF IT
2025-08-21 21:41:33
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kornelia :
I'm 20 I failed maths 3 times and never passed I'm now a event supervisor in a museum in London and I deal with finances so tbf it's pointless
2025-08-22 14:19:21
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Lilly.w. :
Wait wait when is this gonna happen because I do not want to re sit maths this november
2025-08-21 19:38:29
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Archer .ᐟ 𐔌՞. .՞𐦯 :
PLEASE TELL ME THIS KICKS IN BY SEPTEMBER I DONT WANNA DO MATHS AND ENGLISH IM NOT HEALTHY ENOUGH (neither physically, mentally or emotionally I can’t even lie😭💔)
2025-08-21 19:04:56
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Mystery Man 5507 :
Me rn
2025-08-21 19:46:45
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jake Taylor :
don't make the exams harder and maybe less people will fail
2025-08-21 23:30:11
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𝘉𝘦𝘵𝘩 💗 :
Mhm that’s what I’m talking about
2025-08-22 13:46:35
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mantittylover :
Resits should be seperate and not included in actual exams
2025-08-21 18:29:57
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Akaza’s Wife :
Maybe sort your teachers out then. I had good grades in most things but I failed chemistry because the teacher only taught 6/11 modules
2025-08-22 08:20:14
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C.A :
it's a 3 or 4 yo pass
2025-08-22 12:32:11
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Eliska🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🌍 :
God help the dyslexic and dyscalculic kids 😫. I never could pass gcse maths. Masters degree, no problem though! 🙃
2025-08-21 22:25:05
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🚬🚬🚬🚬 :
I failed maths and I got into sixth form
2025-08-21 19:37:38
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