My DD has just moved into Y10 and has been dropped from top set in Maths to middle, and told she is doing the new Foundation GCSE. She's had a couple of lessons in this set and is back doing long multiplication. She had an encouraging year in maths last year, consistently scoring B's (71% in pre-Christmas exams) - but had a worse result (59%) in summer exams. School is saying that with increased difficulty of new exams foundation tier would be a safer bet. She's v strong academically (particularly in similar subjects such as computing - 88% score - and is doing triple science award - where she also scored A's). Am anxious that doing the Foundation exam may adversely impact her chances at the top tier uni's - particularly if she chooses to take science based studies like computing, further. Any advice would be very welcome....have meeting with maths dept tomorrow.