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Are some GCSEs harder to do well in than others are? Yes, was the conclusion of Ofqual recently when the regulator announced the outcomes of research in to the relative difficulty of GCSE subjects. It found that French and German GCSEs had been more severely graded when compared to other GCSE subjects for a number of years. As a result, Ofqual will bring the grading of these subjects into line with other subjects from 2020, which on average may mean students achieve a quarter to half a grade higher than they might have done in the past. Whether this successfully arrests the ongoing decline in the number of students, taking these subjects remains to be seen. You can read more about this in an article published in the Times Educational Supplement – Times Educational Supplement.