www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-32831905
So Ofqual have finished their investigation into the new GCSE maths sample material and concluded what any maths teacher could have told you all along: they were too hard. So now the exam boards will have to change them and send out new sample assessment materials.
The BBC news report says that schools will be starting teaching this GCSE in September, but the truth is that most schools have already started teaching them to Y9 as the extra content means that we needed to start as soon as possible.
What a fuck up. There is no way that the new GCSEs could have effectively been introduced so quickly, I suspect this will not be the last fiasco.
Shame on the government for working to a political timescale and not to one for the actual educational benefit of children.
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New maths GCSE exams declared too difficult by Ofqual
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noblegiraffe · 21/05/2015 18:06
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