General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) exams are already under way for 14 to 16-year-olds in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. They began on Friday, May 12. While various subjects and ...

GCSE and A-level exams could be taken on laptops by as early as 2030, after pupils complained of writing fatigue because their hand muscles 'aren't strong enough'. Exams watchdog, Ofqual, is launching ...

Students could see their GCSE exam time reduced by up to three hours on average, the government has announced, following a curriculum review that deemed the current volume "excessive". The final ...

Several exams across GCSEs and A-levels could be taken on screens from the end of the decade under new proposals from the exams watchdog. Proposals in a consultation launched by regulator Ofqual on ...

A number of GCSE and A-level exams could be taken on screens by 2030 under new proposals from the exams watchdog. Proposals in a consultation launched on Thursday could see GCSEs in smaller-entry ...

Hundreds of thousands of GCSE students in England, Northern Ireland and Wales have received their grades. The pass rate has fallen slightly compared with 2024, with 67.4% of all grades in England, ...

Most people remember GCSE maths with a little shudder, remembering the time spent learning fractions, algebra and geometry. Now it's the turn of Year 11 pupils to be tested on those concepts in exams ...

After revising long and hard for their exams over the past couple of months, British teenagers have finally received their GCSE results today. Year 11's results day makes for a tense spectacle for ...