If you’re a student in the United Kingdom or Wales looking to earn some extra credit by taking on another subject, this list of the easiest GCSE subjects to pass may just be the one for you. The ...

University of Leeds provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Anger at the way creative subjects for teenagers seem to have been sidelined by a new focus on core subjects at GCSE ...

The number of students achieving GCSEs in technical and creative subjects along with religious studies (RS) has declined yet again, according to provisional data. This is a trend that has been ...

Today’s GCSE results reveal that music has one of the highest increases in uptake, of any subject in 2025. More than 38,000 students took GCSE music in 2025, an increase of 6.1% compared to 2024. In ...

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A number of GCSE and A-level exams could be taken on screens by 2030 under new proposals from the exams watchdog. Proposals in a consultation launched on Thursday could see GCSEs in smaller-entry ...

The number of students in England choosing computing as a GCSE subject has fallen in 2020, despite growing in popularity in recent years. Computing at GCSE level in England had 75,730 candidates in ...

Many headteachers are against a government move which will require all teenagers to take GCSEs in traditional academic subjects, according to a poll. It suggests that the vast majority of school ...

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