Early entry to GCSE examinations

Published by the Department for Education 2011.

The Department for Education has published a report presenting data on the difference in final grades between those who enter GCSE mathematics and English early and those who do not.

Key headlines from the report include:

• ‘In both English and mathematics, early entrants overall perform worse than pupils who do not enter early’.

https://www.education.gov.uk/publications/eOrderingDownload/Early-entries-GCSEs.pdf