{"id":808430,"date":"2026-10-20T08:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T08:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/808430\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T08:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T08:44:08","slug":"changes-to-gcse-maths-pulling-the-rug-out-from-under-pupils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/808430\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes to GCSE Maths &#8216;pulling the rug out from under pupils&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At Dean Maguirc College, an all-ability school, 15-year-old Maeve said maths was a vital subject to learn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s to do with everyday life and you need it for loads of stuff like money and most jobs,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said that being able to sit some of her maths exams in November gave her more time to revise for her other GCSEs in the summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;re not all crammed together,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;For maths, like, there&#8217;s a lot of stuff to learn so when you have the one exam to do in November you can learn all of that for November, you don&#8217;t have to keep looking over it until summertime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Maeve said that, in her opinion, the decision was &#8220;not fair&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At Dean Maguirc College, an all-ability school, 15-year-old Maeve said maths was a vital subject to learn. &#8220;It&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-808430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}