Every year GCSE students claim their exams are getting harder and harder - often leading parents to grumble about how things were "back in my day". But it turns out the teenagers might be onto something, based on new research from Save My Exams, who recently challenged parents to complete a GCSE maths question.
Shockingly, 100% of them failed. Of course, it is unreasonable to expect students to pass every question in their exam papers. But the challenge goes to show just how difficult the tests can be - and how important a strong education is.
The news comes as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is set to lay out plans for all children in England to study some form of maths until the age of 18, as Downing Street says that around eight million adults in England "have the numeracy skills of primary schoolchildren."
