Did you know that GCSE pupils penalised for poor spelling and grammar?

Results in key GCSE subjects could fall following the introduction of new rules that penalise pupils for poor spelling, punctuation and grammar.

The number of pupils given A* to C grades may drop after it was revealed that candidates will lose marks for poor standards of literacy for the first time this summer.

The changes – being applied to English literature, history, geography and religious studies – will see five per cent of marks deducted for misspelling words, sloppy sentence structure and poor use of full stops, question marks, commas and apostrophes.