CCEA’s C* grade, how letter and number GCSEs line up, where to find past papers, and where Belfast students can revise — a parent’s guide to exam season.

AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1 (8700/1) and Paper 2 (8700/2) (updated) 2026 Mock Exam Practice Papers + Model Answers Q2 - 5 Level 3 & 4 + Indicative Content Q1 - 4 None of the content is recycled ...

When 200,000 students in England opened their GCSE results last Thursday, it was bad news: they had achieved a grade 3 in English Language – which once would have been called a D. If they want to ...

GCSE and BTEC students across England, Wales and Northern Ireland have received their grades today. Schools and colleges have invited students to get their results in person from 8am, but more than ...

The GCSE pass rate in England, Wales and Northern Ireland has fallen slightly but the grades gender gap is the narrowest its been this century, today's results show. The overall GCSE pass rate has ...

Here’s some advice if you haven’t achieved a grade four or above in maths, English or both on GCSE results day. While grades three and below aren’t fail grades, a grade four in these subjects is often ...

Students are preparing to receive their 2026 GCSE results (Photo for illustration purposes only) Unsplash/Igor Rodrigues Hundreds of thousands of GCSE students across the UK are due to receive their ...

A powerful new AI tool has uncovered what could be one of the biggest integrity problems in modern science. After analyzing 2.6 million cancer research papers published between 1999 and 2024, ...

Liz covers cardiovascular and metabolic disease, asking why we’re not doing better or even losing ground against the world’s leading killer. Send tips on Signal at LizC.22. The story of type 1 ...

VANCOUVER, CANADA—A simple strategy of hunting for odd language errors might help finger fake research papers churned out by so-called paper mills, forensic metascientist James Heathers of the Medical ...

Katarina Zimmer is a freelance journalist in Berlin. I’m a biologist originally from India doing my postdoc at a German institution, and I aspire to run my own laboratory one day. However, because I’m ...