Some years ago now we asked which were the most difficult subjects at GCSE.
To be honest, it wasn’t a question we could actually answer. What we did was look at whether some subjects appeared to be graded more severely (or more leniently) than others.
In particular, it seemed almost certainly the case that modern foreign languages (MFL) was being graded more severely than other subjects.
It’s been a while since we looked at this, so let’s see what has happened since using more recent data.
