Written question asked by James Clappison (Conservative) on Wednesday, 18 January 2006, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Friday, 20 January 2006. It was answered by Baroness Smith of Malvern (Labour) on Tuesday, 14 February 2006 on behalf of the Department for Education and Skills.

Qualifications

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of pupils have obtained a GCSE pass at grade A-C in (a) mathematics and English and (b) mathematics, English, a science subject and a modern foreign language in each of the last 20 years.

Answer

The information requested (where available) can be found in the following table.

Percentage of 15-year-olds achieving A*-C grades in the following GCSEs⁽⁴⁷⁾
	English and mathematics	English, mathematics, science and a modern language
1995	34	24
1996	35	25
1997	36	25
1998	37	26
1999	39	28
2000	40	29
2001	42	30
2002	43	30
2003	43	29
2004	44	28
2005	46	28
⁽⁴⁷⁾ Age at the start of the academic year.

Figures on these combinations of GCSE subjects are not available before 1995.

Secondary information

Type: Written question
Reference: 442 c1933W;442 c1933W; 44703
Session: 2005-06
Subjects: Languages English language Qualifications Standards Science GCSE Mathematics
Contains statistics: Yes
Link: View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk