Are we dumbing our A levels down or are they now harder than in the past?

If you took A-level Mathematics recently, judge for yourself.

Here as two GIF images are the two sides of the Joint Matriculation Board, Maths - 1, GCE, A level paper from 1954 as presented to Queen Elizabeth's GS  (Blackburn) pupils on the 17th June of that year.  Each image is about 180kB so that a printed version shows all symbols.  Right click the two images and save them as Gif files for reading at your own convenience. Comments please to: patrick_powers@dunelm.org.uk

Last updated:14/02/07