The school that topped the Times newspaper’s A-Level rankings in 2024 only permits students to sit A-levels in three subjects: maths, further maths and physics. At King’s College London Mathematics ...

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Chris Brignell is Deputy Director of the Observatory for Mathematical Education, which is supported by a founding grant from XTX Markets Ltd. Stephen Lee is a Senior Research Fellow at the Observatory ...

In 2025, more young people than ever have opened their A-level results to find out how they did in their maths exam. Once again, maths has been the most popular A-level subject, with 112,138 entries ...

There has been a fall in the number of A-level entries in Northern Ireland awarded top A* and A grades in 2024. That was widely expected as grades returned to pre-pandemic levels. About 30.3% of ...

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An A-level maths exam left students “devastated” after what they said were unexpected changes to the style and questions . They claimed exam board WJEC changed the exam format without telling anyone ...

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