In December 2011, we published a post about UK exam boards under investigation. As a consequence of this investigation, Ofqual (department that regulates qualifications and exams in England and Northern Ireland) have made it clear to exam boards that GCSE exams in English literature, maths, history ...
Read more ›Last week, the Department for Education published data on more than 3,300 secondary schools' GCSE and A-Level exam results. Now parents have more information than ever about how their child's school is performing, this is an increase of data of 400 per cent than in 2010.
Performance tables for 20...
Read more ›It's not so much about how many GCSEs you obtain but what GCSEs you obtain. This may seem to be a surprising statement to make but recent research has found that there is a strong link between cities that have a high youth unemployment rate with the lack of GCSE English and Maths. Between 2007 and 2...
Read more ›Here is test number 3 for the common entrance exams, questions courtesy of Galore Park for the ISEB board.
Calculate: (courtesy of Galore Park)
(29 + 413)²
√ 11.45
³√ 1.65
7 ½ divided by 2 ¾, leaving your answer as a fraction.
Calculate: (courtesy of Galore Park)
(a) the area of a circle whic...
Read more ›Susan from Leicester has just e-mailed us this morning with the good news! "Please let tutor Ian know that Mollie got a B in her Maths A- level exam and says she couldn't have done it without him!
Teenage students have scored yet again another record-breaking year of A-level results, with one in ...
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