GCSEs should be more difficult. I absolutely sailed through high school and I did next to no revision for my exams. I still didn't get a result below a B. Once I got to college I really struggled due to the vast difference in difficulty. GCSEs didn't prepare me for higher education whatsoever.
I was high as balls in one of my history exams and I still ended up getting an A*. I'm no expert, but surely something is wrong if a student is able to achieve the highest possible grade in one of the most difficult subjects with little to no preparation and in a mental condition best documented by this gif.
I did shit in college at first too. It wasn't necessarily the difficulty itself, I just wasn't ready for the amount of preparation I had to do because it wasn't a necessity at all in secondary.
How the fuck is it even possible to fail an exam where you only need to get 18% of the marks?
33% not passing is pretty fucking awful tbh. I didn't even hand coursework in for a few subjects and still managed to pass everything except French.
How are they expected to do well in college/uni if they can't make it through GCSEs? Surely it is a good thing that our exams are difficult.