SteveW wrote in
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On 04/12/2013 11:45, Mark wrote:
On Tue, 03 Dec 2013 18:38:06 +0000, news
wrote:

On 03/12/2013 14:45, Dave Baker wrote:

"John Rumm" wrote in message
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GCSE exams are divided into two tiers. I've only seen the higher
tier (more like O level standard) questions. Maybe the
aforementioned tests are like the lower tier (c.f. CSE).

I haven't seen the tests referred to, but the GCSE higher tier is nowhere
the standard of the 1950s O Level, which required knowledge of how to prove
Pythagoras's theorem and do some differentiation. GCSE higher tier today is
not much more advanced than the 11-plus.

Harry