10 Facts About GCSE

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Each GCSE qualification is offered in a specific school subject .

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Studies for GCSE examinations take place over a period of two or three academic years, starting in Year 9 or Year 10 for the majority of students, with examinations being sat at the end of Year 11 in England and Wales.

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However, the exam papers of the GCSE sometimes had a choice of questions, designed for the more able and the less able candidates.

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Between 2005 and 2010, a variety of reforms were made to GCSE qualifications, including increasing modularity and a change to the administration of non-examination assessment.

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Under the new scheme, all GCSE subjects were revised between 2015 and 2018, and all new awards will be on the new scheme by summer 2020.

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List of currently available GCSE subjects is much shorter than before the reforms, as the new qualifications in England all have core requirements set by the regulator, Ofqual, for each subject.

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Where the subject taken post-16 has been taken at GCSE, it is often required that the student achieved a grade C, 4, or 5 as a minimum at GCSE.

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International version of the GCSE is the IGCSE, which can be taken anywhere in the world and includes additional options relating to coursework and the language the qualification is pursued in.

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Only slightly more than half of pupils sitting GCSE exams achieve the 5 A* to C grades required for most forms of academic further education.

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One of the important differences between previous educational qualifications and the later GCSE qualifications was supposed to be a move from norm-referenced marking to criterion-referenced marking.

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