“..0%: What this year’s top science pupils would have got in 1965..”
“..High-flying GCSE students set for an A or A* pass..scored zero points in a mock science exam which included old O-level questions.
The two-hour exam, devised by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and named “The Five Decade Challenge”..
..included questions from past science papers spread over the past 43 years.
The results published today showed the older the paper, the fewer marks the students scored.
For instance, the average score for the 2005 paper questions was 35 per cent..
..compared to 15 per cent for the 1965 questions.
Overall, the average score was 25 per cent..but the RSC said some children scored no marks at all.
The RSC called the test, taken by just over 1,300 of the country’s brightest 16-year-olds..
..the first hard evidence of a “catastrophic slippage” in exam standards..”
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