GCSE results: boys drive slightly improved performance
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This year’s GCSE results were released today. Overall, there has been a slight pick-up in performance levels, after a couple of years of decline, in pupils achieving higher grades.
However, as with our assessment of last week’s A-level results, it’s important to remember that any reported changes are likely to be much less dramatic than they sound.
A rise in, say, the number of pupils achieving top grades, is likely to be a matter of a few percentage points. Changes in performance also need to be taken in a longer term context to be properly understood, not looked at compared to last year in isolation.
Those warnings aside, there are a couple of interesting trends to note. A pick up in overall achievement of grade A/7 and above, or C/4 and above (we’ll explain the new grading system in a moment) is driven by boys in particular. They’ve shown a slight increase in achievement of these grades, while achievement among girls is much the same as in previous years.
Some of the biggest decl...
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