Slight increase in the GCSE pass rate and the percentage of top grades this year - despite concerns about the difficulty of exams gcseresults2019
England's exams regulator Ofqual and the exams board insist they are keeping standards the same over time through a system of comparable outcomes.
This means the percentages achieving different grades nationally never changes very much from year to year. But Geoff Barton, ASCL general secretary, said while the increased rigour may have been in the interest of the more able students, it had come at the expense of the more vulnerable ones. Last week, a leaked document revealed the low number of marks required to achieve a grade A in some A-level subjects.
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