A-levels not equipping students with appropriate maths skills
New evidence shows that A-levels in a range of subjects fail to equip students with an appropriate level of maths skills
This, and research revealing the differences in mathematical difficulty between different exam boards' papers, has led leading learned societies and education experts to make recommendations for the upcoming A-level reform.
SCORE (Science Community Representing Education), a collaboration of leading science organisations, has published a report which analyses the type, extent and difficulty of maths in the 2010 A-level examination papers for the three sciences.
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