An exam board has admitted a controversial computing paper was “more difficult” this year, but top grades remained higher than pre-Covid levels after boundaries were lowered.
OCR said in May that it would review its GCSE computer science paper 2 after complaints from school leaders it left high-achieving pupils “traumatised” and “completely disheartened”.
Following last week’s GCSE results day, a spokesperson said it had “looked carefully” at the paper, including listening to feedback and carrying out “detailed analysis during the marking process”.
They added that marking had showed it was “slightly more difficult and we set grade boundaries accordingly”.
