Here is the core of today's exam result news:
The performance tables of GCSE and A-level results, published today, showed that schools had achieved the “biggest single improvement in standards for a decade”. The proportion of students who passed five GCSE subjects at grade C or better, the Government’s benchmark for success at 16, rose by by 2.6 percentage points to 56.3 per cent in 2005.
Got that? Now read The Times' full report, where the careless reader will be given the impression of doom and gloom. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1995906,00.html