Teenagers
will sit the new maths GCSEs in summer 2017
Exam boards have been
told to re-write their new maths GCSE exams just six school weeks before pupils
are due to start studying for them.
English exams
regulator Ofqual analysed the results of 4,000 mock tests of sample papers for
GCSEs due to be studied in schools next term.
It found three of the
four main exam boards had made their papers too hard for the broad spread of
candidates.
The fourth, AQA, has
been ordered to make its papers more "challenging".
Exam boards have been
drawing up new, tougher maths and English GCSEs in response to government
demands to introduce more rigour into secondary school examinations.
