Graham Cumming
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Erstwhile examination board Maths Adviser. Occasional comments about UK maths exams and pictures of buses.
Essex, England
Joined March 2020
A table of all GCSE subject grade distributions for boards offering subjects in England (four images)
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Don’t worry, no-one’s going to want to leak OCR maths papers
Exclusive: Exam boards are playing a 'game of cat and mouse' with cyber criminals and an attack could jeopardise a future exam series, the new head of Cambridge OCR has warned https://t.co/Yw3LMD9bXW
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Not long now until the least needed exam in England - the GCSE Maths resit at Higher tier, required by only ~1000 students. Good thing we’ve got four exam boards on the case, producing 11 different exam papers for it!
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Somewhat disingenuous on the maths proposition - the grade distribution for GCSE Maths shows that Eduqas principally attracts resit students, and that’s not how marvellous the spec is, that’s because large colleges make big savings running only two papers rather than three
🆕 Following the publication of 2025 entry data, Eduqas has been confirmed as the third largest provider of GCSE qualifications in England - with more than 400,000 entries:
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Good to see a current version of this ever-popular table (thanks Matt Man). You can assume, though, that many of the 9/A* students also took Further Maths
After going to the "Exam Insights Summer 2025" CPD session by Pearson Edexcel, it made me think of the below questions. We'll discuss this at the start of my workshop on "Moving 'em up to the next grade!" for #ALevelMaths #MathsConf39 @LaSalleEd
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I’m guessing you’re going to need A level Maths to get on to those ‘priority’ courses
theguardian.com
Education secretary says means-tested grants for ‘those who need them most’ will be funded by new international student levy
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A few #coremaths lessons here
My new five things EVERYONE should know about student finance for 2025/26 blog - a five minute read to demystify how it really works...
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We’re now running online summer 2025 subject insight events where we’ll present key themes on how students performed in the 2025 summer series and give teachers the opportunity to explore this feedback. Find out more ➡️ https://t.co/VVC4lSzJ9m
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One for the @tessmaths padlet
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Some interesting data on English and Maths resits - shows that very few students who achieved grades 1 or 2 for GCSE Maths go on to resit and achieve grade 4 or above
ffteducationdatalab.org.uk
Although it is a requirement that pupils who do not achieve grade 4 in English (or maths) at GCSE continue to study English (or maths) post-16 by no means all of them enter a qualification.
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The anomalies here are Computing and Physics where the top grades are dominated by those students who also do Further Maths; maybe single maths isn’t always enough
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Want to get serious about your A level results? Get serious about maths. Students who do maths at A level do better overall in all other subjects
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Ah well, how about that
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Venn diagrams showing some STEM combinations of three A levels (including Maths & Further Maths) chosen by 18-year old students, and outcomes compared to those nationally
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Venn diagrams showing some STEM combinations of three A levels chosen by 18-year old students, and outcomes compared to those nationally
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