US EditionGCSE exams 2025: When pupils will sit their core subject exams - including English, maths and science
- The 2025 GCSE exams showed that grades in modern foreign languages and computer science remain lower than those in English and maths across UK pupils.
- This follows recent reforms to MFL GCSEs introduced in September 2024, with the first reformed results expected in 2026 and grading severity reviewed last in 2023.
- Boys scored about a grade lower in French compared to English and maths, while girls tended to earn higher grades in subjects such as drama, media studies, and religious studies.
- Ofqual reported French and computer science grades are each more than half a grade lower than English and maths, noting a stricter grading trend in computer science between 2014 and 2019.
- These grade disparities suggest ongoing challenges in addressing historic low grading in MFL and computer science, with current adjustments considered insufficient by some observers.
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Grading severity at Key Stage 4 in 2024 - FFT Education Datalab
Some years ago now we asked which were the most difficult subjects at GCSE. This wasn’t a question we could actually answer. But what we could do was look at whether some subjects appeared to be graded more severely (or more leniently) than others. We subsequently followed this up again in 2019 and 2023. Whenever we have done this, it has always been the case that modern foreign languages (MFL) and computer science were being graded more severel…
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