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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Hello @pearson @pearsonedexcel - can you tell me why all the grade statistics information has disappeared from your website?
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Parking metres? About five for a regular space these days
🟠 Look after the penny and the pound will look after itself... One couple took this saying to the extreme, being accused of stealing €1m in loose change by taking coins out of parking metres @SophyRidgeSky and @WilfredFrost chat about the alleged penny pinching pair
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Probably a good day to post this again #coremaths
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Financial literacy? Oh, the maths teachers can do that
Usual questions: what exactly comprises financial education, teach it instead of what, and which subject teachers will be expected to cover it? (I fear I know the answer to the third one)
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Good luck to all those Year 12 resitting Foundation tier GCSE Maths this week - remember, about 10,000 students will achieve Grade 4 or better this time round, so be one of them! Make it the shortest “endless cycle” ever known
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A brilliant idea, shadow papers from COCR
New #GCSE (9-1) #MATHS Alternative Papers! Alternative Papers based on the summer 2025 past papers are now available! Download them now from Teach Cambridge! https://t.co/80GJKHH1dm
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I’m old enough to remember when the Level 1 and Level 2 Functional Maths qualifications were going to be stepping stones towards a post-16 GCSE Maths resit - I wonder what happened to them?
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I see the “endless treadmill” is now a “demoralising roundabout” “Baroness Smith also said a new qualification would be introduced as an alternative to GCSE resits, helping students who ‘too often have been on this demoralising roundabout of taking exams and failing them’.”
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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 have ten of these PHYSICS FOR CATS pins to give away! Reshare the post below👇 for a chance to win one. UK only (you can share from anywhere but I can't send you a pin).
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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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