Don't let it get you down Chris. People have been saying "exams are getting easier" ever since exams started. I did my GCSEs back in 1996, the year after the A* was introduced. People moaned about it, "an A is an A", and so on.
When you get your results, why don't you ram that "Information Technology" GCSE right up the bottom of anyone who did O-levels in 1964 and claims GCSEs are far too easy now.
Now, I speak French far more fluently than people I know who did their French O-levels in the 1960s and 1970s. I was by no means exceptional, I got an A, not an A*.
I did "woodwork" of a sorts back at school, but seeing as we now have a greater range of readily-available materials, my "Technology" lessons also included vacuum-formed plastics, hot-wire cutting, PCB-making, soldering, semi-conductors, ICs and computer-control. Was all that covered in Woodwork O-level? Bear in mind I only studied Technology to the end of Year 9, I didn't even START a GCSE on it yet I had covered all the above. GCSE pupils of the subject got to do a bit of brazing and welding too.
OK, so the core subjects such as Maths and English have evolved little in 40 years (in fact 100 years or more), but judging by the way some of my middle-aged neighbours speak then I would say that the standard of English has got no "worser"
in that time.
Anyway, people who say that exams get easier are often the same people who will say that exams mean little once you have a job.