Quiz: can you answer these GCSE maths questions? Test your knowledge as exams get underway

As GCSE exams get underway, how well do you remember your high school mathematics?

It's that time of the year, as pupils across the country nervously put their learning to the test in GCSE exams. England’s exam regulator Ofqual has said results in 2023 will signal a “step back to normal”, after Covid led to an increase in top grades in 2020 and 2021.

This year’s GCSE exams started on Monday 15 May and will last until Wednesday 21 June.

Earlier in the year, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced plans to make all pupils in England study maths until the age of 18 under new plans to tackle high rates of innumeracy.

Sitting the dreaded GCSE maths exam is something that most people will remember - some more fondly than others. Typically taken over the course of two or three academic years, the all-important final examinations at the end of Year 11 mark the culmination of a long period of hard work.

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As the government looks at plans to extend compulsory maths education to the age of 18, we have compiled a series of recent exam questions to put the general knowledge of the public to the test.

Put your numeracy skills to the test and see how many of these GCSE exam questions you can answer correctly.

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