What age in primary or secondary school is it expected that a child would achieve a grade 3/old D? I ask because my year 6 son has become a little maths obsessed and has been watching an old maths watch CD rom in which you can look at all the grade D subject independently. They seem to cover pretty much year 6 material like nth term, areas of squares and triangles etc. I’d previously seen articles of 11 year olds passing a GCSE with a C and thought it was a big achievement. Now I’m wondering if it is such a step up? My 10 year old is only averagely bright and I’m sure I could teach him to scrape a pass at GCSE if I wanted to. He would definitely not be able to grasp any of the A/A* material and not all of the B but think he could definitely get a C. Do you think this is unusual or do a lot of you feel that your child could do it if they were interested in achieving it? We have got no interesting in doing this by the way but I’m interested in at what point in secondary school an average top set would get a low pass if put in for a maths GCSE.
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RRWilliams ·
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