Private schools are more likely to put children in for more difficult GCSEs, and the children also gain more points at GCSE. Total GCSE points is particularly dependent on number of GCSEs taken, and the difficulty of the GCSEs taken, and there are also direct influences of private schooling...
In the UK, school education is compulsory until the age of 16, when the GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Edu- cation) exams are taken by almost all students in schools, the only exception being a small minority with severe edu- cational, intellectual or behavioural problems (and for ...