Unlikely, but possible

What is the most effective way of taking below-average students up a grade in four GCSE subjects?

Of course there is a vital bit of information missing in that question. It is the information about time.

The point is that given enough time it is probably possible to take most students up a grade in a GCSE subject. But the notion is irrelevant because we don’t have that extra time.

So I am going to add in a time limitation here and talk about taking below-average students up a grade in each of four GCSE subjects, using just two hours a week for one term.

And now I am going to go even further. For rather than just make that claim, I am going to insist that the answer is validated through significant research over a number of years, undertaken by a major independent education research institute.

What’s more, I want this rise in grades to have been replicated time and time again with the lowest 20% of students in terms of achievement, year after year after year.

Now you might feel I have gone over the top, adding all these extra demands, but I am going to continue further. I want all this to be achieved not just by two hours of work a week, but I want there to be no insistence on when and where those two hours were spent.

They could be totted up at home, or at school, during lunch breaks or an after school club, or indeed at any other time at any other location.

Quite how these remarkable improvements in GCSE grades were achieved is revealed in the FFT report, “Impact of e-Learning”.

Indeed, independent research from the FFT has shown time and time again that using the techniques and approach explored in this survey results in the student gaining the extra marks that are required to enhance grades.

You can read the full free report by clicking here.

Alternatively if you would like to discuss implementing this approach which really does take two hours a week over ten weeks, to generate a rise of four GCSE grades among below average students, please do call us on 0845 130 4160.