Climbing the grade ladder with the new tier system.

The article reports that in summer 2008, a new two tier system will be used to examine General Certificate of Secondary Education maths in England. The reaction of many to this decision has been very positive, because all students will now be able to aspire to the all-important grade C. The students, who are potential grade D candidates will gain from these new tiering arrangements. Now, the students with B/C potential will be tackling papers which are relatively difficult for them. A good thing educationally is that the foundation papers will require mastery of most of the material tested in order to gain a C grade.