{"id":1073,"date":"2025-08-23T17:18:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T16:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/penandploughtutoring.co.uk\/?page_id=1073"},"modified":"2026-09-15T20:07:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T19:07:54","slug":"academic-resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/penandploughtutoring.co.uk\/?page_id=1073","title":{"rendered":"Grading"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>English<\/em><\/strong><br><br>Astonishingly, close to 40% of students fail GCSE English Exams every year and less than 50% of students pass with a Grade 5 and above. In\u00a02025, approximately\u00a02.9%\u00a0of 16-year-old students in England achieved a grade 9 in English language. These figures are lower than the percentage of grade 9s awarded across all GCSE subjects, which was around\u00a05.1%\u00a0in 2025. English can be hard, even for very bright students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Understanding the UK grading system: <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/gcse-9-to-1-grade-scale-explained\/gcse-9-to-1-grade-scale-explained\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"699\" height=\"941\" src=\"https:\/\/penandploughtutoring.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1074\" srcset=\"https:\/\/penandploughtutoring.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-1.png 699w, https:\/\/penandploughtutoring.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-1-223x300.png 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 699px) 100vw, 699px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Credit: www.gov.uk<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English Astonishingly, close to 40% of students fail GCSE English Exams every year and less than 50% of students pass with a Grade 5 and above. In\u00a02025, approximately\u00a02.9%\u00a0of 16-year-old students in England achieved a grade 9 in English language. These figures are lower than the percentage of grade 9s awarded across all GCSE subjects, which&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/penandploughtutoring.co.uk\/?page_id=1073\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Grading<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"iawp_total_views":21,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1073","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandploughtutoring.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandploughtutoring.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandploughtutoring.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penandploughtutoring.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penandploughtutoring.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/penandploughtutoring.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1592,"href":"https:\/\/penandploughtutoring.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1073\/revisions\/1592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandploughtutoring.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}