November 2025 GCSE results - JCQ Joint Council for Qualifications

📊 Nov 2025 GCSE resits:
✅ English up (37.5% 4+, now above pre‑pandemic)
❌ Maths stuck (23.2%, below 2019)
📈 More resitting
Progress is possible – but the current model, esp for maths, isn’t working for #TheForgottenThird. With reform on the table, we must act now.

Full JCQ data: shorturl.at/dRz9K

A superbly, clear, analytical, and characteristically constructive submission to the #CurriculumandAssessment review from m'colls @ascl-uk.bsky.social. A particular hat-tip to @tommiddlehurst.bsky.social.
We really have to do something about #TheForgottenThird: www.ascl.org.uk/News/Our-new...