University students in the UK are hiring private tutors because they cannot cope on their own.Students who have used tutors since primary school are now paying around £50 an hour for one-to-one lessons to help them make the transition to university.
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Tension between the Tories and Lib Dems has drastically increased in the last 24 hours. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has very publically and stridently lambasted education secretary, Michael Gove’s plans to scrap the GCSEs and replace them with examinations similar to the 1950s-style O-Levels and CSEs.Don't Worry this year GCSEs would as usual...who cares what happens next year!!!!!!
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658,000 students sat GCSE exams this year.
The proportion of students who received a C grade or above has fallen for the first time since the GCSEs were introduced in 1998.
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Tension between the Tories and Lib Dems has drastically increased in the last 24 hours. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has very publically and stridently lambasted education secretary, Michael Gove’s plans to scrap the GCSEs and replace them with examinations similar to the 1950s-style O-Levels and CSEs.Don't Worry this year GCSEs would as usual...who cares what happens next year!!!!!!
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658,000 students sat GCSE exams this year.
The proportion of students who received a C grade or above has fallen for the first time since the GCSEs were introduced in 1998.
Last year 69.8% of candidates received A*-C grades, compared with 69.4% this year.
Last year 23.2% gained A*s and As, whereas this year the figure dropped to 22.4%.
Grades in English literature have dropped from 78.4% A*-C to 76.3% A*-C.
58.4% of maths grades came in as A*-C.
The percentage of girls getting all A*-C grades was 73.3%, compared to 65.4% of boys.
Even though more boys took individual sciences, girls performed better in physics, chemistry and biology.
Maths remains the most popular subject, and the others in the top ten are: English language, science, English literature, design & technology, religious studies, history, geography and art and design.
Science and Spanish GCSEs were more popular this year, but the fewer students took German and French.
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This year’s GCSE results have been particularly dramatic and controversial, with a major uproar surrounding the English results. Teachers and students alike are outraged by the huge shift in grade boundaries, which has meant that many pupils have received grades that are much lower than they expected.
Anger is mainly focused on the fact that students who sat English GCSE exams in January needed 43% to attain a C grade. However, those who sat the exam in May needed to get 53% to get a C. This is an enormous difference, and has left many students who were expecting at least a C grade with a D or below. Overall the percentage of pupils attaining a C grade or above in English dropped by 1.5%. Maths and science grades also fell.
Although boundaries for grades often change, and talk of trying to curb grade inflation has been rife for a while, it is the severity of the exam boards’ actions that has really shocked people. For example, out of the 96,000 students who sat English literature and language with the AQA board, only 2.3% were awarded an A or A* and almost 70% got a D or lower. One head teacher told the Guardian that the marking this year has been “savage and abnormal”.
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A Level Results:
Although the overall pass rate has risen to 98% (when A Levels were introduced in 1951 the pass rate was 70% and remained so until 1981) for the first time in twenty years the proportion of top grade results has fallen. Last year 27% of candidates were awarded an A or A*, whereas this year the figure dropped to 26.6%. Although 0.4% doesn’t sound like an awful lot, it is extremely significant after two decades of rising grades.
Another surprising figure was that for the first time since the A* was introduced, boys have outperformed girls. To achieve an A*, candidates need to get over 90% in their paper, so it really is an impressive feat to be awarded an A*. Girls traditionally do better at A Levels than boys, so it will be interesting to see whether the trend continues next year or not. Perhaps 2012 saw a particularly hard working group of male students, or maybe boys are catching up with their female classmates and closing up the gap.
English retained its title as the most popular subject, maths came in second and biology was awarded third place. Maths is gaining strength every year though, with a 3.8% rise on last year and a 45.6% rise since 2007. Maybe it’ll snatch English’s top spot before long.
