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According to the official figures released on Thursday, the number of GCSE exam entries awarded with top grades suffers disappointing fall for second year in a row and also the biggest fall in the 25-year history of the examination, as above 600,000 teenagers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland received their results.
The results, published by the Joint Council for Qualifications, indicate that the proportion of pupils awarded top grades has to suffer 1.3 percentage points down-fall to 68.1 per cent since 2012, while the number of entries awarded A* or A marks slipped to 21.3 percent from 22.4 percent.
JCQ has said the drop in grades has been put down to several factors, from a change to science GCSEs, to a rise in pupils taking maths a year early to an increase in number of students taking international GCSEs (IGCSE) in certain subjects.
This is the first year a new version of GCSEs in biology, chemistry, physics, additional science and additional applied science was awarded.
Exams watchdog Ofqual has stated: “The small drop at A*-C overall is largely due to the more challenging science subjects.”
Entries from 15 year-olds were up 39 percent from 579,831 last year to 806,141, and this summer they made up 15 percent of the overall entry.
JCQ has showed that the results also showed a “dramatic” rise in the number of entries for modern foreign languages, with French entries up 15.5 percent, German up 9.4 percent and Spanish up 25.8 percent.
Education Minister, Huw Lewis has said “despite rigorous tests” students had performed well.
Mr. Lewis has added: “Our work to build on the rigour of qualifications remains a key element of our agenda to raise standards in Welsh education.
“Despite rigorous tests our students’ performance in GCSEs shows that the overall pass rate remains stable at a high 98.7%, with passes at A*-C at 65.7% which is encouraging.”
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According to the official figures released on Thursday, the number of GCSE exam entries awarded with top grades suffers disappointing fall for second year in a row and also the biggest fall in the 25-year history of the examination, as above 600,000 teenagers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland received their results.
The results, published by the Joint Council for Qualifications, indicate that the proportion of pupils awarded top grades has to suffer 1.3 percentage points down-fall to 68.1 per cent since 2012, while the number of entries awarded A* or A marks slipped to 21.3 percent from 22.4 percent.
JCQ has said the drop in grades has been put down to several factors, from a change to science GCSEs, to a rise in pupils taking maths a year early to an increase in number of students taking international GCSEs (IGCSE) in certain subjects.
This is the first year a new version of GCSEs in biology, chemistry, physics, additional science and additional applied science was awarded.
Exams watchdog Ofqual has stated: “The small drop at A*-C overall is largely due to the more challenging science subjects.”
Entries from 15 year-olds were up 39 percent from 579,831 last year to 806,141, and this summer they made up 15 percent of the overall entry.
JCQ has showed that the results also showed a “dramatic” rise in the number of entries for modern foreign languages, with French entries up 15.5 percent, German up 9.4 percent and Spanish up 25.8 percent.
Education Minister, Huw Lewis has said “despite rigorous tests” students had performed well.
Mr. Lewis has added: “Our work to build on the rigour of qualifications remains a key element of our agenda to raise standards in Welsh education.
“Despite rigorous tests our students’ performance in GCSEs shows that the overall pass rate remains stable at a high 98.7%, with passes at A*-C at 65.7% which is encouraging.”
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