Pass rates for this summer’s GCSE maths and English resits in England have taken a big fall on last year, and a slight dip on pre-pandemic levels.
This summer marked the return of exams for the first time since 2019, after two years of disruption during the Covid-19 pandemic.
For English, the proportion of male and female students achieving a grade 4 – equivalent to a C on the old system – is 28.4 per cent this year. That’s 13.9 percentage points lower than the 42.3 per cent rate in 2021 and 1.9 percentage points lower than 2019.
In maths, 20.1 per cent achieved a grade 4 for 2022 compared to 38.6 per cent in 2021 – an 18.5 percentage point fall – but just 1.1 percentage point down on 2019.
