On 2 July 2026, Ofqual issued a Chief Regulator’s Rebuke to Pearson Education Limited for serious breaches related to the 2025 A Level mathematics exams. Just over 75,000 students in England sat the exams, but problems in the design and delivery caused public concern. Pearson admitted that it had reused contingency papers from 2022 as assessment papers in 2025, resulting in content that was “unreasonably similar” to the 2022 papers. The substitution of a contingency paper did not provide the same level of content coverage, leading to over‑assessment of some topics and under‑assessment of others. Ofqual concluded that the results were still reliable for progression to university and other destinations. The regulator chose a rebuke rather than a fine, citing Pearson’s cooperation and assurances about the validity and reliability of the results.
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