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GCSEs: Which is the biggest exam board?
AQA remains the largest awarding body for GCSEs, while OCR’s market share continues to decline, new figures show
New Ofqual data on the GCSE market reveals that AQA continues to have the largest share of any awarding body, while OCR’s share has more than halved since 2014.
AQA has improved its market share over the past five years. In 2014-15 it covered 46 per cent of the GCSE market, whereas it now has 61 per cent of market share.
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OCR, however, has seen a dramatic decline in its share. Having covered 16 per cent of the market in 2014-15, it now has a market share of just 7 per cent.
Pearson’s market share has remained broadly stable since last year - in 2018-19 it held 25 per cent of the market share, increasing its share by one percentage point to 26 per cent in 2018-19.