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Biology and Geology was the subject for which the largest number of students took the exam (with 37,730 tests), followed by Portuguese (34,935), Physics and Chemistry A (33,570) and Mathematics A (32,105).

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Sep 6, 2024

Four takeaways from 2024's GCSE results

The students opening GCSE and other Level 2 results earlier had not heard the word "Covid" when they first walked through their secondary-school gates.

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Sep 6, 2024

GCSE marking system: The 9-1 grade boundaries explained as pupils await exam results

GCSEs have been graded using a new, more detailed system for the past few years. There are now six different passing grades available. The grade boundaries to achieve each one are unfortunately still to be set. GCSE students will need to pay special mind to their English and maths results.

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Sep 5, 2024

Few schools and colleges will get better GCSE and A-level results than last year, minister warns

Few schools and colleges will get better GCSE and A-level results this summer than they did in 2021, the government has warned.

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Sep 4, 2024

High school certificate can be obtained online and for free

The high school diploma certificate can be obtained online and is free of charge. This was announced by the Ministry of Education in a statement.

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Sep 3, 2024

English-language courses below standard in Taipei

At least half of the English-taught courses provided by universities under the Program on Bilingual Education for Students in College do not fit the definition of “English as a medium of instruction” (EMI), the National Audit Office said.

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Sep 2, 2024

More than 294 thousand people registered to take the Regular PAES in December of this year

According to preliminary figures, there were 2.2% more applicants this year than in the previous period, when 287,599 people were registered. The Regular PAES 2024, Admission 2025, will be applied on Monday 2, Tuesday 3 and Wednesday 4 December.

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Aug 30, 2024

After Ban on Race-Conscious Admissions, MIT’s Black and Latino Enrollment Plunges

The incoming freshman class at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the nation’s most selective institutions, will be significantly less racially diverse than in years past, according to data released on Wednesday by the college.

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Aug 29, 2024

Many schools are poorly prepared for digital National Exams in Sweden

Many schools do not yet have the technical conditions to conduct digital national tests. During a transition period, they may instead give the tests in paper form. - It is high time for all school principals to start preparing the technology, says Marcello Marrone, project manager at the Swedish National Agency for Education.

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Aug 28, 2024

National secondary exams begin for more than 156,000 registered students

In the last 6 years, only in 2019 was this number surpassed, with almost 160 thousand registered. Exams start with Mandarin and Portuguese tests and end on June 28th with geometry and history.

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Aug 27, 2024

The 2025 College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) will take place on November 14.

The 2025 College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) will take place on November 14. Following last year, the so-called "killer questions" (ultra-high-level questions) are excluded this year, and attention is being paid to how much the expansion of "N students" due to the increase in medical schools will affect the difficulty.

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