A 92-year-old man could be the oldest person in Britain to ever pass a GCSE exam after receiving the highest possible grade in his maths paper.
Derek Skipper, from Orwell in Cambridgeshire, sat a foundation level maths exam earlier this year, and found out on Thursday morning he had achieved a level 5 (equivalent to a lower B).
“I am very pleased indeed. I opened [my results] this morning to find I had got a 5, which was as high as I could get on the basic maths GCSE course I took. So I’m delighted to have got it,” he told BBC Breakfast.
He used a magnifying glass to help him see the paper because of his poor eyesight, and took along a slide rule he had used when he sat his maths exams at school in 1946.
