Living / 22 July, 2026 / My Baba
Every year in England, thousands of bright, capable kids sit down to take their GCSE English and maths exams — and fail. Not because they don’t know the material. Not because they haven’t worked hard. But because the exam itself only tests one narrow way of showing what you know.
My guest today has lived this. She watched her own dyslexic son work harder than anyone, understand the material, and still miss the pass mark — again and again — by the smallest of margins. And she watched what that did to him.
So she did something about it. She founded Fairer Exams, a parent-led campaign fighting for a fairer GCSE system — and she’s since taken the message to the TEDx stage with a talk called Why exams need to change.
Today we’re talking about dyslexia, dyscalculia, and why England is falling so far behind when it comes to fair assessment. We’ll get into the terrifying stats — did you know as many as one in three young people are effectively locked out of opportunity because of this one narrow form of testing? And we’ll talk about a route that exists right now, hiding in plain sight, that almost nobody knows about — one that could change the trajectory for thousands of kids, if only more parents knew it was there.
This is a conversation for every parent — not just those with a child who has additional needs — because this system touches every single family sending a child through school.
My guest today is Hannah Gee, founder of Fairer Exams. What a pleasure it was.
Hannah Gee is the founder of Fairer Exams, a parent-led campaign calling for a fairer GCSE English and maths system after watching her son, who is dyslexic, repeatedly miss the pass mark by tiny margins, despite being capable and hardworking. Her TEDx talk, Why exams need to change, explores why 1 in 3 young people are locked out of opportunity by one narrow form of assessment, and why she is campaigning for an applied pathway within GCSEs so every child has a fair chance to show what they know.
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