Tags are generated automatically from the petition contents, so sometimes they do end up being a bit imprecise. But manually tagging over a 100,000 petitions would be a bit of a stretch, so we'll just have to put up with the occasional dodgy tag. Sorry about that.
Allow state schools the same right as private schools to sit IGCSEs .
Open from Thursday 25th September 2014 to Monday 30th March 2015
46 signatures
Offer African languages from across the continent as formally recognised GCSEs
Open from Wednesday 5th September 2018 to Tuesday 5th March 2019
45 signatures
Ensure fair grading for GCSE students in 2023
Open from Monday 11th July 2022 to Wednesday 25th January 2023
45 signatures
Do not implement proposed changes to student loans
Open from Monday 14th March 2022 to Wednesday 28th September 2022
45 signatures
Don't raise national average target grades in GCSE English Language & Maths.
Open from Wednesday 6th April 2022 to Thursday 20th October 2022
44 signatures
Petition against the abolition of GCSE modular examinations
Open from Thursday 25th August 2011 to Saturday 25th August 2012
44 signatures
Bring back Coursework for GCSE English language and Literature and Humanities.
Open from Friday 8th April 2016 to Saturday 8th October 2016
44 signatures
Bring science class size restrictions in England/Wales in line with Scotland/NI.
Open from Saturday 19th January 2019 to Friday 19th July 2019
44 signatures
Create a January re-sit opportunity for all GCSE English and maths re-sits.
Open from Monday 4th December 2017 to Monday 4th June 2018
43 signatures
Provide financial support to A-level and GCSE examiners.
Open from Wednesday 13th January 2021 to Tuesday 13th July 2021
43 signatures
Ban state schools from making Religious Studies a mandatory GCSE subject
Open from Friday 28th March 2025 to Sunday 28th September 2025
42 signatures
Go back to the old GCSEs and abolish the new 9-1 Grading system
Open from Tuesday 13th February 2018 to Monday 13th August 2018
42 signatures
Ensure GCSE students have access to formulae and equation sheets post 2027
Open from Tuesday 3rd June 2025 to Wednesday 3rd December 2025
41 signatures
Allow reformed GCSE results to be counted by school year 11 performance tables
Open from Thursday 14th January 2016 to Thursday 14th July 2016
41 signatures
Raise the age when children take control of their own health care and treatments
Opened on Friday 10th April 2026
40 signatures so far
Lessen student finance requirements for foreign students who reside in the UK
Open from Wednesday 26th August 2020 to Friday 26th February 2021
40 signatures
Ensure advance information fair grading for A Level exam students in 2023
Open from Monday 21st March 2022 to Wednesday 5th October 2022
39 signatures
Nationalise GCSE and A-Level exam boards.
Open from Monday 7th April 2025 to Tuesday 7th October 2025
39 signatures
Give 2022/2023 GCSE students a choice between exams or teacher assessed grades
Open from Monday 29th March 2021 to Wednesday 29th September 2021
39 signatures
Stop Religious Education (RE) being compulsory in English schools from Year 10
Open from Monday 24th March 2025 to Wednesday 24th September 2025
39 signatures
Keep GCSE's in favour of E-BAC's and Review Michael Goves place on the Cabinet
Open from Friday 21st September 2012 to Saturday 21st September 2013
38 signatures
Cancel all GCSE, AS and A level exams until 2024.
Open from Monday 8th March 2021 to Wednesday 8th September 2021
38 signatures
End the mandate for students aged 16-18 to resit GCSE Maths and English
Open from Wednesday 5th March 2025 to Friday 5th September 2025
38 signatures
Make schools allow GCSE students to take study leave before & during their exams
Open from Friday 13th March 2020 to Sunday 13th September 2020
38 signatures
Reform assessment of English GCSEs
Open from Thursday 7th April 2022 to Friday 21st October 2022
37 signatures
Make a Fairer System for Creating A level and GCSE Results
Open from Thursday 1st October 2020 to Thursday 1st April 2021
37 signatures
Reverse the decision to make GCSE and A levels 100% exam based.
Open from Tuesday 22nd March 2016 to Thursday 22nd September 2016
37 signatures
Environmental Education
Open from Wednesday 10th August 2011 to Friday 10th August 2012
37 signatures
Review the amount of written exams for GCSEs
Opened on Wednesday 4th February 2026
37 signatures so far
Different exams for private and state educated pupils
Open from Thursday 19th May 2016 to Saturday 19th November 2016
36 signatures
Reconsider the 2017 changes to the structure of the GCSE examinations.
Open from Thursday 14th February 2019 to Wednesday 14th August 2019
36 signatures
Do not remove GCSE Computer Science
Opened on Friday 12th December 2025
36 signatures so far
Review extra time practices in secondary schools for GCSE and A levels
Open from Thursday 12th June 2025 to Friday 12th December 2025
36 signatures
Make GCSE study leave a requirement in state schools in England
Open from Monday 16th June 2025 to Tuesday 16th December 2025
36 signatures
Remove English literature from the national curriculum for Key Stage 4
Open from Wednesday 1st April 2020 to Thursday 1st October 2020
36 signatures
Fund free resits to allow 2020 A-Level/GCSE students to retake all exams once
Open from Tuesday 18th May 2021 to Thursday 18th November 2021
35 signatures
Create fund to support parents who home-school & create national register
Open from Thursday 10th September 2020 to Wednesday 10th March 2021
35 signatures
Replace the compulsory GCSE English Literature subject with Computer Science.
Open from Friday 28th September 2018 to Thursday 28th March 2019
35 signatures
Make GCSE computer science mandatory to prepare young generation for the future.
Open from Monday 20th February 2017 to Tuesday 2nd May 2017
35 signatures
Make money management lessons mandatory in schools
Open from Wednesday 22nd May 2019 to Wednesday 6th November 2019
35 signatures
Reinstate Taekwondo to the activity lists for GCSE and A Level PE
Open from Tuesday 17th January 2023 to Monday 17th July 2023
35 signatures
Exempt people with a Citizenship GCSE from the Life in the UK test
Open from Friday 30th October 2020 to Friday 30th April 2021
35 signatures
Put more funding into music, drama, and dance education.
Open from Monday 1st March 2021 to Wednesday 1st September 2021
33 signatures
Change the law that states you have to do 3 sciences for GCSE.
Open from Friday 17th February 2017 to Tuesday 2nd May 2017
33 signatures
To create an intermediate tier paper for maths GCSE (all exam boards)
Open from Monday 3rd October 2016 to Monday 3rd April 2017
33 signatures
Require GCSE grade boundaries to be fixed each year
Open from Friday 22nd August 2025 to Sunday 22nd February 2026
33 signatures
Make prostitution legal in order to make sex workers safe and keep them healthy.
Open from Tuesday 28th November 2017 to Monday 28th May 2018
32 signatures
Require schools to offer BTECs at Key Stage 4
Open from Thursday 3rd December 2020 to Thursday 3rd June 2021
32 signatures
Scrap national exams for Key Stage 4 permanently
Open from Friday 12th March 2021 to Sunday 12th September 2021
32 signatures
Abolish all GCSE and A-Level exams
Open from Tuesday 30th April 2019 to Wednesday 30th October 2019
32 signatures
Make politics a compulsory subject from years 7 - 9
Open from Monday 15th November 2021 to Sunday 15th May 2022
32 signatures
Make GCSE Science an optional subject
Open from Monday 20th January 2025 to Sunday 20th July 2025
32 signatures
Make bullying inside and out of school and work a criminal offence
Open from Monday 11th January 2016 to Monday 11th July 2016
32 signatures
Universal Education For All
Open from Wednesday 29th January 2014 to Thursday 29th January 2015
31 signatures
Don't implement GCSE exam 9-1 grades, instead have A*, A, B*, B, C*, C, D, E, F.
Open from Wednesday 13th July 2016 to Friday 13th January 2017
31 signatures
Compulsory teaching of Economics at GCSE level.
Open from Thursday 14th July 2016 to Saturday 14th January 2017
31 signatures
Maintain the B1 English Language requirement for ILR
Opened on Wednesday 14th January 2026
30 signatures so far
Change the Numeracy and Literacy Skills Tests to unlimited attempts
Open from Friday 2nd February 2018 to Thursday 2nd August 2018
30 signatures
Scrap school league tables to reduce pressures on young people and teachers
Open from Wednesday 3rd January 2018 to Tuesday 3rd July 2018
29 signatures
Give current yr 11 & 13 students the option to repeat the year to improve grades
Open from Thursday 7th January 2021 to Wednesday 7th July 2021
29 signatures
Make finance a part of the GCSE Maths curriculum.
Open from Friday 15th July 2016 to Sunday 15th January 2017
29 signatures
Return Nurse training to Hospitals and GP Practices
Open from Wednesday 10th August 2011 to Friday 10th August 2012
29 signatures
Introduce a mandatory Sex Education GCSE
Open from Friday 12th February 2021 to Thursday 12th August 2021
29 signatures
Abolish all written/timed exams in every GCSE/A-Level & make them practical
Opened on Friday 19th December 2025
28 signatures so far
Make maths gcse optional
Open from Tuesday 28th July 2020 to Thursday 28th January 2021
27 signatures
Don't go back to the O-level keep the GCSE
Open from Thursday 28th June 2012 to Friday 28th June 2013
27 signatures
ALL GCSEs to be optional not compulsory, allowing equal value to ALL subjects
Open from Friday 12th March 2021 to Sunday 12th September 2021
27 signatures
All British exam boards (AQA, OCR, Edexcel etc) should be merged to ensure fair testing.
Open from Wednesday 20th June 2012 to Thursday 20th June 2013
27 signatures
Stop the government changing from GCSE to English Baccalaureate
Open from Friday 21st September 2012 to Thursday 21st March 2013
27 signatures
Review of the apprenticeship standards for England (SASE) for mature apprentices
Open from Thursday 27th June 2019 to Wednesday 6th November 2019
26 signatures
Make GCSE Economics and Politics compulsory subjects on the National Curriculum
Open from Friday 24th January 2014 to Saturday 24th January 2015
25 signatures
Allow GCSE Science Students Data Sheets with Ions, Equations & Reactivity Series
Open from Monday 27th February 2017 to Tuesday 2nd May 2017
25 signatures
For English Literature to be an optional GCSE.
Open from Wednesday 28th December 2022 to Wednesday 28th June 2023
25 signatures
To invest money in local government so they can support homeless shelters.
Open from Friday 6th January 2017 to Tuesday 2nd May 2017
25 signatures
The history of Communism should be introduced into the GCSE history curriculum.
Open from Friday 6th October 2017 to Friday 6th April 2018
25 signatures
Students doing history GCSE's should learn 5 units for History instead of 4.
Open from Monday 11th June 2018 to Tuesday 11th December 2018
25 signatures
Increase school funding in Hackney schools back to what it was.
Open from Tuesday 31st October 2017 to Monday 30th April 2018
25 signatures
Include a diversified range of authors for GCSE, A-level and primary curriculums
Open from Tuesday 4th October 2022 to Tuesday 4th April 2023
24 signatures
Free college transport for post 16 students
Open from Thursday 27th June 2013 to Friday 27th June 2014
24 signatures
Introduce "life lessons" to the educational curriculum at senior school level.
Open from Monday 24th August 2015 to Wednesday 24th February 2016
23 signatures
Change the GCSE Media Studies course back to 60% coursework and 40% exam
Open from Monday 1st April 2019 to Tuesday 1st October 2019
23 signatures
Offer GCSE and A level students the option to sit their exams at a later date
Open from Wednesday 13th January 2021 to Tuesday 13th July 2021
23 signatures
Make GCSEs test students' abilities rather than their memories
Open from Monday 20th February 2017 to Tuesday 2nd May 2017
23 signatures
The 1 to 9 grade scheme for GCSE should be changed back to A* to G.
Open from Thursday 21st February 2019 to Wednesday 21st August 2019
23 signatures
Citizens must pass GCSE level maths and English to vote
Open from Wednesday 29th June 2016 to Thursday 29th December 2016
23 signatures
To be allowed 500 words / 2 sides of notes to every GCSE exam.
Open from Monday 29th January 2018 to Sunday 29th July 2018
23 signatures
Set policy that exam boards should give students notice of GCSE exam topics
Opened on Monday 23rd February 2026
23 signatures so far
allow people to take part in childcare with or without maths GCSE
Open from Thursday 20th March 2014 to Saturday 20th September 2014
22 signatures
Give all 2021 A-level students grades based on their GCSE results
Open from Monday 18th January 2021 to Sunday 18th July 2021
22 signatures
Allow students to have open book exams and supported with equations and formulae
Open from Wednesday 20th February 2019 to Tuesday 20th August 2019
22 signatures
Ensure A-level and GCSE results are released in the same week
Open from Tuesday 17th August 2021 to Thursday 17th February 2022
22 signatures
The Implications of the Rise in University Fees
Open from Wednesday 27th November 2013 to Thursday 27th November 2014
22 signatures
Justine Greening to bring back GCSE and AS/A2 ICT development.
Open from Friday 22nd July 2016 to Sunday 22nd January 2017
22 signatures
Scrap English understanding B1 test when doing a Naturalisation/citizenship!!!!
Open from Tuesday 26th March 2019 to Thursday 26th September 2019
22 signatures
Disallow Teacher Assessed Grades lower than a 5 for 2021 GCSEs and A-Levels
Open from Wednesday 24th February 2021 to Tuesday 24th August 2021
21 signatures
Don't scrap A level/GCSE Electronics/Systems and control. Help future engineers.
Open from Tuesday 21st June 2016 to Wednesday 21st December 2016
21 signatures
Close schools except for Year 11s
Open from Wednesday 9th December 2020 to Wednesday 9th June 2021
21 signatures
Make it illegal to use power tools past 20:00 hours in home D.I.Y
Open from Thursday 10th March 2016 to Saturday 10th September 2016
21 signatures
Replace 2022 GCSE and A-Level exams with teacher assessed grades
Open from Monday 11th April 2022 to Tuesday 25th October 2022
21 signatures
Change the gcse scheme back to A,B,C instead of grades 9-1 so it’s easier
Open from Friday 20th April 2018 to Saturday 20th October 2018
21 signatures
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