I have
to disagree.
My uncle is a Maths teacher.
I took GCSE maths years ago at school and got 'E'. I retook it. I got an 'E'.
A few years ago I went through a copy that my uncle got me; I got a 'B'.
(dchurch bah, Thu 22 Sep 2011, 18:03, 1 reply)

That doesn't mean much though
I've just been through an example paper. An awful lot of the stuff in it is mental maths - the sort of thing you would expect to get better at as you get older and have more experience of actually applying percentages and fractions to the real world. For a good comparison, you would want to look at a paper in a subject you haven't used in the intervening time.
( MatJ LOOK, Fri 23 Sep 2011, 16:38, closed)

There
may be some truth in that. I don't recall using maths in that respect, although I had been a programmer for a fair few years at that point, so that alone may have changed the way I think about things and may have had an effect.
Although, I still consider my maths to be shite.
I just don't know.
...that said, the results have increased year on year since 1982. I'm fairly sure people in 1982 weren't as thick as pig shit.
(dchurch bah, Fri 23 Sep 2011, 19:59, closed)