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WATCH: 92-year-old reveals maths GCSE result on air

Teenagers across the country have been finding out their GCSE results today and so has 92-year-old Derek Skipper.

Mr Skipper has revealed his GCSE maths result to BBC Breakfast's presenters.

He says he took his last maths exam in 1946, just after the Second World War and got "what must have been a very basic pass."

25 August 2022

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