Last week it was A Level results, which showed the number of pupils scoring top grades dropping for second year running.
Today, it's the turn of GCSE students to share the bad news.
There's been a major slump in the GCSE pass rate with the percentage of pupils getting five top grade A* to C passes suffering its biggest fall in the history of the exam.
So how well can you remember the lessons from your teenage years?
Take our GCSE quiz below to find out...and tweet your score to @indyvoices.
All questions and answers taken from BBC Bitesize mock exam papers.
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