HC Deb 01 November 1976 vol 918 c506W
Mr. Roderick

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if she will publish the numbers of candidates in the United Kingdom who obtained GCE 0-level passes in English, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, History, Geography, Economics, French, German, Spanish and Welsh in each of the past 10 years, and express these as a percentage of the total number of 16-year-olds in each year; and if she will publish similar statistics for CSE Grade I.

Miss Margaret Jackson

Time series of statistics of GCE and CSE examination results by subject are published in "Statistics of Education", Volume 2, copies of which are available in the Library. It would be misleading to express graded results in terms of those age 16 as these examinations are not always taken in a candidate's sixteenth year. In 1974, only 47 per cent. of those taking the summer O-level examination were aged 16 at 1st September of that year. Furthermore, students in Scotland usually take the Scottish Certificate of Education.