Community | August 14, 2008 | 6 comments

A-level results improve again

source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/education/2556491/A-level-results-show-r...

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The number of teenagers in the UK who achieved top grades in their A-levels has risen again.

The results were revealed to young people across the country today: overall pass rates rose for the 28th successive year to 97%, while the total numer of A-grades rose to 26%.

These results come after concerns over the number of firsts awarded at UK universities.
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6 comments // A-level results improve again

  • JanaPokana
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      JanaPokana  

    • Grade inflation is a really worrying trend that affects people in school and in university. Institutions are just so worried about competing with others when it comes to top-grade finalists that they are missing the bigger picture ...

    • 3 years ago
  • nesslochness
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      nesslochness  

    • A levels aren't getting easier...
      If a teacher teaches the same material for 5 years, they are going to develop an exam technique to help students get the best results possible, because they know the way the exam is laid out. Sometimes they can predict what is going to come up.

      This is why some students can get 3 A's but don't have any common sense.

      I wish people who raved on about these so-called easy A levels took (or retook) some themselves to judge instead of talking about things that they cannot fully relate to.

    • 3 years ago
  • Tommyjolly
  • Mr_T
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      Mr_T  

    • whatever's happening, the papers should be made harder. There's no point to them if so many people are getting all A's. Where's the distinction between students performing at different levels. When people are ashamed to get all C's (as is saw on GMTV this morning), it's a real shame, as once upon a time that would have been a pretty good result. An E is a pass at A-level, and everyone just gets A's and B's.
      A-levels are very quickly becoming pointless, and Uni's are letting people in on other reasons like outside activities, entrance exams, interviews.

    • 3 years ago
  • Tommyjolly
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      Tommyjolly  

    • 26%??? Are they joking? That is ridiculous.
      I've met so many people here, that I can say that not even a third of them have the potential to be an A - student.
      I'm shocked about the poor quality of education here & can honestly say, that I've learned much more in my time at school in Germany.
      A lot of people here do have a serious lack of common knowledge, science, geography etc.

      I've met so many people over here (UK) getting A*'s all the time. As far as I remember we had to work really hard at school (that was 3 years ago) and an A was just been given for exceptionally outstanding work, which was like 2 or 3 times in a group of 40+ students.

    • 3 years ago
  • rwylie
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      rwylie  

    • It's a bit suspicious that reults have risen so consistently: I find it hard to believe that we're getting smarter, although on the other hand maybe the internet's helping.

    • 3 years ago
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