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Three of the four main English exam boards had made their papers too hard, according to exams regulator Ofqual.
The fourth board, AQA, has been ordered to make its papers more 'challenging'.
Exam boards have been preparing new, tougher maths and English GCSEs in response to government demands to introduce more rigour into secondary school examinations and to match high-performing nations like Singapore and South Korea.
The regulator came to these conclusions by analysing the results of 4000 mock tests of sample papers for GCSEs syllabuses due to be studied in schools next term.
25 May 2015
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstein
18 May 2015
While I was updating my web site to make it easier to find and buy eBooks related to learning and education, I discovered - to my surprise - that both Amazon and Apple have free eBooks on their sites.
I have started listing eBooks - including the free editions - on:
mwls.com/shop/e-books.php
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27 April 2015
It is always difficult to predict how long any project will take - the news is full of projects that have overrun and overspent. You could estimate the time by using Murphy's Law of Time Management...
21 April 2015
New update reflects Royal Mail's price changes.
16 April 2015
Learning times tables can be very boring, but this card game for two players is a fun way of doing it and it will encourage the learning of times tables as a reflex action.
30 March 2015
We have made our website more mobile friendly.
When you connect to mwls.com using a mobile phone - and if the page is available as a mobile version - you will be redirected to our mobile site. Tablet computers should still see the desktop page.
If you would prefer to use the desktop site, just click on the 'Desktop version' link that you will find towards the the top or bottom of the page. Please note that this feature will only work if your browser allows the use of cookies. The desktop version is now shown full size instead of being shrunk to fit your screen - just scroll to bring the part of the page that you want to see into view.
At present, the actual resources can only be viewed in the desktop version. This will be done automatically if you click to view a resource. You can return to the mobile version by clicking on 'Mobile' towards the top of the lefthand column.
18 March 2015
Our online shop has had a refit and has been given a new name - Learning Pages.
Learning obviously reflects that it is about learning and Pages emphasises that we sell other learning media in addition to books.
16 March 2015
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