An AS-level maths exam featured an "impossible" question that was worth more than 10% of the overall mark. The test was taken by nearly 6,800 students last Thursday, and the offending question was ...

Cambridge International Education (CIE) announced on Saturday that it has cancelled the leaked AS Level Mathematics paper and will not be marking students on it. Instead, students will be assessed ...

In June 2017, students in England sat the new 9-1 maths GCSE papers for the first time. The change was more than a simple altering of grades from the previous A* – G to 9 – 1. Many topics were moved ...

Mathematics at A-level is going from strength to strength. Maths is the most popular subject choice, and further maths, which is a separate A-level course, has seen the most growth in uptake. Despite ...

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In 2025, more young people than ever have opened their A-level results to find out how they did in their maths exam. Once again, maths has been the most popular A-level subject, with 112,138 entries ...

Teachers have been asked whether A-level and AS-level maths students should be allowed to use calculators in examinations, says Jessica Shepherd Was it log a x + log a y ≡ log a (xy) or log a x – log ...

AN exam board said sorry yesterday after pupils were set an impossible question in an AS-level maths paper. Youngsters were left baffled by the incorrect equation, worth 11% of the exam’s marks, ...

Applications for university courses in maths and computing have slumped, while more students want to study history and medicine, official figures published yesterday show. Applications for university ...

At the ripe old age of seven, twins Peter and Paula Imafidon have become the youngest children to pass an A-level maths exam. They both achieved D grades in AS-level maths. Child prodigy Ruth Lawrence ...