The GCSE results are now public and thank you to JCQ for the following information.

http://www.jcq.org.uk/media-centre/news-releases/gcse-press-notice---uk

It states there has been a 2.5% increase in the pass rate for GCSE English for 16 Year olds,  This is higher than the 1% I was worried would be the case but not near the 7% that could have been expected given the 7% swap to IGCSE English. As stated I have asked Oqual to release the progress for each board for both GCSE and IGCSE.  I am still convinced there is no standard across the two types of exam.   I will publish this data when I receive it.

The Dfe must now check and then publish in Raise on Line all the progress measures including and excluding IGCSEs.  

Thank you for reading

Chris

English GCSE Results 2015 update

Having created my blog a couple of months ago the Cambridge IGCSE results have been published.  This shows a 1.1% drop in A* - C pass rate.  This is with a completely different cohort from 2014 as the numbers below show.  I am now very worried that the impact on the GCSE results next week will be significant.

	Number of candidates	Cumulative* percentages by grade
		A*	A	B	C	D	E	F	G
June 2015	201,858	3.4	12.4	31.2	63.0	85.7	94.7	97.3	98.2
June 2014	121,530	5.7	15.5	32.5	64.1	86.7	95.4	98.0	98.6

*Percentages are cumulative. For example, in June 2015, 63% of students achieved a grade C or above

http://www.cie.org.uk/news/news-details/view/cambridge-appeal-grows-for-schools-in-the-uk-11aug15/

I have made a Freedom of Information request to Ofqual for the KS2 to KS4 expected progress against actual outcomes for IGCSE and GCSE  English for all the individual exam Boards 2015 and 2014.  This will highlight any issues that may have taken place.  There are many many implications that then follow from this that I will return to.

Chris Beeden