File photo dated 07/03/12 of a general view of pupils sitting an exam.
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GCSE examinations for students at age 16 should be scrapped, a Conservative MP has said.
Flick Drummond (Meon Valley) said the assessment system for secondary school pupils “is no longer fit for purpose” and that assessments at 16 no longer make sense now that pupils stay in education until the age of 18.