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It summarizes changes in early entry across multiple subjects, then focuses on GCSE English and mathematics where early entry is most common. The study examines student characteristics by prior attainment, tier of entry, and school type, and evaluates performance over time. 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The analysis summarises the trends in early entry for a number of subjects by considering the number of students who enter early and how this has changed over time, before providing a more detailed analysis for the subjects where early entry is most prevalent: specifically, GCSE English and mathematics. This analysis explores the type of students that enter early in terms of their prior attainment, their tier of entry 1 and the type and characteristics of the schools that they attend. Furthermore, it investigates the performance of students who enter early and how this has changed over time, as well as comparing the performance of students that enter early with the performance of older students with the same prior attainment. The first section provides an overview of the key trends in early entry that have been reported in the literature and the perceived limitations of these findings, before discussing how the current analysis aims to build upon and extend previous reports. The literature concerning early entry is currently fairly limited, meaning that the following section is restricted to the discussion of a small number of published reports.  \nEvidence of the trends in early entry from the literature Summary of previous findings  \nOne of the key pieces of evidence concerning early entry that has recently been published is areport by the Department for Education (DfE, 2011) that aimed to explore the impact of early entry on performance, with a view to informing stakeholders of the possible effects. Focusing on GCSE English and mathematics , the report first highlights the increase in early entries over recent years. Whilst around 2% of the GCSE English and 5% of the GCSE mathematics national cohorts in England were early entries in 2007 (across all examination series) , these figures had risen to around 25% in 2010. These findings are supported by a report exploring the age of GCSE students (Gill, 2010), where the percentage of early entries across all subjects and for English and mathematics were shown to have increased dramatically between 2004 and 2009.  \nAlthough there is evidence of early entry being used prior to this, the sharp increase in early entries appears to have mainly been a recent occurrence. As shown by Gill (2010), the percentage of GCSE entries across all subjects from 15 year old students remained relatively stable between 2000 and 2004 (at 1.2% and 1.7% of the total entries, respectively), yet increased dramatically in the subsequent five years to reach 5.1% of the total entries in 2009.  \n1 Some GCSE specifications are tiered, allowing question papers that target different ranges of ability. Typically, the higher tier allows access to the higher grades (A*-E), whilst the foundation tier allows access to the lower grades (C-G) .  \nDuring this time, the number of 15 year old GCSE students as a percentage of the overall number of GCSE students also increased, from 7.5% to 19.2% . The greater percentage of 15 year old students, relative to the percentage of 15 year old entries, suggests that the younger students have only been entering a small number of GCSE subjects early. Indeed, as discussed by Gill (2010), there is evidence that the number of GCSE subjects that younger students take has remained stable over time, suggesting that schools are only using early entry for certain subjects. In addition to the increase in 15 year old students certificating at GCSE, it is worth noting that the number of even younger students sitting GCSEs has also increased (see Gill, 2010), although these numbers remain small.  \nSimilar patterns in the percentage of early entries are observed for GCSE Eng","cbCailqQEMsImgYd","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailqQEMsImgYd","pdf",380704,26,"English","# Overview\n## Evidence from the literature\n## Summary of previous findings\n## Policy and performance implications","[{\"question\":\"What data range does the analysis cover for GCSE early entry?\",\"answer\":\"The paper reports analysis of awarding body data from 2007 to 2011 and draws on trends discussed in published literature for earlier context.\"},{\"question\":\"Which GCSE subjects receive the most detailed analysis?\",\"answer\":\"The paper provides a more detailed analysis for GCSE English and mathematics, where early entry is described as most prevalent.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the paper evaluate who enters early and how they perform?\",\"answer\":\"It examines early entrants by prior attainment, tier of entry, and school characteristics, then investigates performance changes over time and compares outcomes with older students with the same prior attainment.\"}]","Analysis of the trends in early entry at GCSE - Overview - 2007 to 2011 | PDF",1792464711,66]