The denominator of the mean was 8 in every case even if the applicant had achieved fewer than eight GCSEs. A mean was then taken for all matched applicants holding that subject and grade. As in the 2010 NPD for the first time accredited iGCSEs have been included to better capture the ...
than 40,000 pupils in for IGCSEs last summer - 12 per cent of their candidates - warned that conventional GCSEs were losing rigour.Dr Martin Stephen, high master of St Paul's boys' school in West London, said: 'Our experience of the new GCSE in science is that it is not an ...