| Sabina excelled in her GCSE exams and now hopes to follow up her current course with a beautician course before going to university. |
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| Despite a good attendance record, he was withdrawn by teachers from all his GCSE exams. |
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| Teenagers across Hampshire were jumping for joy as the wait for their GCSE results finally came to an end. |
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| Again, last week saw tears of joy and tears of woe as the GCSE results came out. |
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| He is now looking at just four GCSE passes as opposed to the eight high grade passes she believes he is capable of. |
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| It is thought the GCSE pupil got too close to a Bunsen burner or burning taper. |
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| Of key interest to parents is the percentage of students achieving five or more GCSE passes at grade C or above. |
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| And by December, GCSE mocks are being sat before the final exam timetables come through in Spring. |
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| A huge range of interactive program guide children from the absolute basics through to GCSE level and above. |
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| A Yorkshire 'superhead' says an examination board is robbing students of the grades they deserve following the controversy over GCSE results. |
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| Although girls do well in science subjects at GCSE, they often fail to take these subjects further. |
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| Bias, as every GCSE pupil now knows, is often a problem in the presentation of history. |
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| In school, he achieved straight As at GCSE, while on the sports scene he played for West Ham and Wimbledon. |
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| League tables published this month showed boys made better progress from key stage three to GCSE than any other school in Kingston. |
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| The row follows the first drop in GCSE results for 24 years after boards attempted to clamp down on grade inflation. |
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| The dominant examination at the end of compulsory schooling in England is the GCSE, the General Certificate of Secondary Education. |
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| A Redhill schoolboy won a national prize for an outstanding performance in his Spanish GCSE this year. |
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| Lucy, meanwhile, likes the top-floor balcony in her room, where she spends sunny days revising for her GCSE exams. |
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| Pupils at the school achieved GCSE and A-level grades above the national average last year. |
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| Cotswold 16-year-olds had stars in their eyes after scooping a hatful of top grades in their GCSE results. |
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| Schools at both ends of the educational spectrum reported their best GCSE results ever yesterday. |
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| Irish pupils perform better than the national average in most subjects at Key Stages 1 and 2, and at GCSE and equivalent. |
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| Even a cursory look at the new science GCSE is enough to give anyone pause for thought. |
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| He discovered a passion for art in prison and passed a GCSE and A-level and now plans to continue his studies at a Welsh university. |
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| I was a teacher invigilating the GCSE Physics practical for the class I taught. |
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| Government proposals could mean pupils who can't spell lose marks in GCSE and A level exams. |
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| Grave concerns have been raised about the marking of A levels and GCSE exams after 24 students from Easingwold School had their grades raised. |
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| Eight of our GCSE candidates were awarded one of the top 5 marks in the whole of the country. |
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| Towards the start of GCSE examinations in May, timetabled lessons are geared towards revision and teaching youngsters revision skills. |
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| Natalie has just completed nine GCSE exams and will take A levels in mathematics, physics, biology and PE at Millfield. |
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| Schools across the borough celebrated another record-breaking year as GCSE results improved again. |
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| As someone who has taken both the old O-level maths and the GCSE version he is also one of the few people who can pass judgment on whether exams really have got easier. |
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| I didn't feel particularly challenged by any of my GCSE subjects. |
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| Mark and Tom went out to buy a GCSE biology textbook in an attempt to find out exactly where their lumbar region is. |
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| Additional requirements, such as GCSE performance, are also clearly stated. |
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| They fear the new timetable, with GCSE classes starting four weeks early at the end of the summer term, will eat into their usually quiet exam period. |
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| He seems more interested in the tougher GCSE as a nervewracking penalty shoot out. |
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| A GNVQ counts as four good GCSEs, despite taking about the same classroom time as one GCSE and being far easier to pass. |
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| It's bringing on some heavy GCSE flashbacks, though any knowledge that once went with them seems to have been misplaced. |
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| With about 8m A-level and GCSE grades certified in 2014, that meant that nearly one in every 100 was changed as a result of challenges. |
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| The sharp rise in grade changes was partly owing to increased numbers of successful challenges to GCSE results. |
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| The proportion of students gaining a GCSE award grade A-C in modern language subsequently rose from 17 per cent to 49 per cent of the cohort. |
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| Fears of a security breach yesterday prompted the withdrawal of a GCSE exam paper, just two weeks before it was due to be taken by thousands of pupils. |
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| The court was told that both men had passed their GCSE examinations and that Morris Doherty had passed three A levels and was studying television production at university. |
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| Headteachers have claimed that tens of thousands of teenagers could have been adversely affected by grade boundary changes in GCSE English. |
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| As well as statutory tests, pupils were entered for GCSE Examinations. |
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| Then they ran a host of other controlled trials: younger students, different teachers, different subject areas, different content areas and, finally, the whole of year 10 GCSE science exams. |
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| You will also have the option to sit GCSE exams at the end of three terms. |
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| Allied to this, it is apparent that the GCSE route, the only route currently available to students, does not suit the talents and aptitudes of all the students as a way of maximising their learning potential. |
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| In the provincial phase of this activity, aimed at second year GCSE students, more than 3.000 boys and girls throughout the whole of Andalucia took part. |
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| Students at both state schools and independent schools typically take GCSE examinations, which mark the end of compulsory education in school. |
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| She has been an examiner for the French Chamber of Commerce professional examinations in English, has run a TOEIC testing centre and participated in producing a CD-ROM to prepare the GCSE French examination. |
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| Which is perhaps just as well, as the independent thinktank, the Institute of Fiscal Studies, has been through all of them with a calculator and declared every party in need of remedial GCSE economics classes. |
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| Several pupils have already seen the benefit of resitting their GCSE maths exams. |
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| Volunteers are supporting a homework club and running GCSE tutoring for local teenagers as well as other activities, and giving general help in the library. |
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| One of his defining moments on the show was helping GCSE student Musharaf Asghar overcome a crippling stammer using a technique borrowed from the film The King's Speech. |
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| Berkshire is split into unitary authorities, and Wokingham, Windsor and Slough have the next best GCSE results. |
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| I opened the book while waiting for a show to begin, confronting my GCSE French skills head on and praying that the people next to me didn't think I was being an unsociable pretentious plonker. |
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| Will the RE GCSE short course slowly slide into oblivion? |
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| Eighty per cent of the GCSE attainment gap is present by age seven. |
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| Our boys and girls achieve stratospherically high grades at GCSE and A level and go on to highly competitive courses at the top universities. |
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| Michael Gove, the Shadow Children's Secretary, put out a press release embargoed for a quiet day of the year, saying that new Government figures revealed that fewer than one in three 16-year-olds were sitting GCSE history. |
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| Bangladeshis' exam results have improved so dramatically in recent years that they now outscore whites in GCSE exams taken at 16 astonishing for a mostly working-class group. |
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| Others would argue that the current GCSE is an increasingly devalued educational currency. |
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| These results complement the school's achievement of its best ever A level results the week before the GCSE results arrived. |
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| At A-level and GCSE there are so many top grades they're not fit for purpose. |
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| At GCSE, the lowest performing area is Knowsley, consistently the worst performing LEA in England. |
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| At A level in 2010, Trafford performed the best and, again like its results at GCSE, is one of the best areas in England. |
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| Nottingham City schools tend to perform less well in terms of GCSE standards, with some Leicester schools suffering a similar problem. |
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| On a District Council level, Rushcliffe in Nottinghamshire tends to attain some of the region's best GCSE results. |
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| Leicestershire and Derbyshire also regularly tend to produce GCSE results at a standard greater than the national average. |
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| At GCSE, the best performing area in 2010 was Solihull, closely followed by Warwickshire and Shropshire. |
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| At GCSE and A level, Outer London boroughs have broadly better results than Inner London boroughs. |
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| At GCSE, the best borough is Kingston upon Thames, closely followed by Sutton. |
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| Overall at GCSE in 2009, Greater London had the best results for regions of England. |
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| Greater London is generally a prosperous region, and prosperous areas generally have good GCSE results. |
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| It has around 470 pupils and is just below the national average based on the results of GCSE test performances, but steadily improving each year. |
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| The Welsh language is also compulsory up to the age of 16, although a formal GCSE qualification is optional. |
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| Where the choice of A level is a subject taken at GCSE level, it is frequently required that the pupil has received a GCSE C grade minimum. |
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| After the GCSE reformations, there is less emphasis on coursework and qualifications are awarded either mostly or entirely on exams. |
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| In addition, GCSE grades have been rising for many years, which critics attribute to grade inflation. |
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| In another case, concerning the 2016 GCSE biology exam, students were complaining about the test not including any actual biology questions. |
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| Also, according to an ITV News report, UK students tend to outperform Jersey students on GCSE examinations. |
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| The 'phase 1' of the GCSE reformations incorporates the subjects of English language, English literature and Mathematics. |
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| Pupils working below GCSE level may take a different qualification altogether in one or more subjects. |
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| Welsh is now a compulsory language up to GCSE level for all students who start their education in Wales. |
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| Admission to A level programmes is at the discretion of providers, and usually depends on GCSE grades. |
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| He left school in the summer of 2005 with a Grade A in PE amongst his other GCSE results. |
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| Many schools visit the area for educational studies such as GCSE fieldwork. |
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| But it's an opportunity because students taking GCSE English will still get a separate speaking and listening certificate, which gives schools a chance to develop their oracy work. |
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| For many years now, one chemical equation sits in the GCSE curriculum almost in isolation – the Haber-Bosch process, an example of an industrialised process and a dynamic equilibrium. |
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| Schools in Surrey and Hampshire also have consistently good GCSE results, and they are above average in Oxfordshire, West Sussex, Kent, Medway, and East Sussex. |
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| In 2008, for the first time, its students sat the IGCSE exam instead of the GCSE in Science, following sitting IGCSE in Mathematics the previous year. |
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| No schools in this LEA usually get above average GCSE results. |
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| Prior education to GCSE level is generally required of pupils wishing to pursue A Level courses or the BTEC Extended Diploma and International Baccalaureate. |
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| York and North Yorkshire consistently perform the best at GCSE in the region, and with the East Riding of Yorkshire have results above the UK average. |
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| Currently it is compulsory to study English, mathematics and religious studies, although a full GCSE course does not have to be studied for the latter. |
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| In another case, concerning the 2016 GCSE biology exam, students took to twitter to complain about the apparent lack of Biology content in the exam. |
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| For college and university admissions, the high school diploma may be accepted in lieu of the GCSE if an average grade of C is obtained in subjects with a GCSE counterpart. |
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| The incorporation of GCSE awards into school league tables, and the setting of School level targets, at above national average levels of attainment, has been criticized. |
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| Another incident includes a GCSE Maths exam paper where there were complaints about a question later named in the media as the 'Hannah's sweets' question. |
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| The Department for Education cited figures showing that academy GCSE results were improving at twice the rate of the national average as proof that the schools were working. |
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| Being out of school either truanting, on holiday or sick for more than five weeks a year cut a pupil's chances of getting one good GCSE at grade C or better by 30 per cent. |
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| The school's GCSE results are now the highest in South West England. |
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| After finishing compulsory education, students take GCSE examinations. |
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