Many more teenagers will be forced into an “utterly demoralising” cycle of retakes when they fail English or maths GCSEs this week, education experts warned on Tuesday.
Under current rules pupils who fail to get a grade 4 in maths or English GCSE must retake the exam until they leave school. But the situation will be worse this year as increasing numbers of teenagers are predicted to fail their exams because of a return to pre-pandemic grading standards, experts said.
