No matter what figures are published, showing more exams being passed, with better grades, education standards are falling.
I failed mathematics O-level.
I retook it years later as a G.C.S.E.
I'd not suddenly got more numerate, or indeed found it more interesting, it was just much, much easier.
Theree was no comparisson.
From a D to a A* grade, and I still can't do long division.
