No matter how much they revise, students can never predict what’s going to be on an exam paper despite discussions around what is “unlikely” or “likely” to come up. And that’s exactly what happened ...

An exam board’s decision to make poetry compulsory for students taking GCSE English literature next summer has prompted anger among teachers. Ofqual announced last month that schools and colleges in ...

A violent poem has been dropped from an English GCSE syllabus due to fears about teenage knife crime. The AQA exam board has withdrawn Education For Leisure by Carol Ann Duffy, which begins with the ...

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