Exam Results 2010
A LEVEL
This year’s cohort achieved a record number of points per candidate and points per entry at A level. The overall percentage of grades A&B is 89%.
A-LEVEL (not including GS)
Candidature 137
Total entries 462
Percentage pass rate 100
Percentage A* & A 64
Percentage grades A & B 89
UCAS points per entry 113.5
A & AS LEVEL (not including GS)
Average number of passes 3.7
UCAS points per candidate 414.5
A & AS LEVEL (including GS)
UCAS points per candidate 456.9
The average number of A-level passes was 4. Special congratulations are due to Sam Abbott, James Clegg, Josh Cooper, Graham Davis, Lewis Farrimond, James McConnell, Amul Patel and Alex Wernick, all of whom achieved 3 A* grades and, for really exceptional achievements, Calum Pontin, bound for Oriel College, Oxford to read Civil Engineering, who clocked up four, as did David Phillips, also adding two “S” grades in the Cambridge STEP examination en route for the Maths Tripos at Queens’ College Cambridge.
60 of the 137 students achieved at least 3 A grades; 33 managed 4 or more and 45 students – one third of the year – recorded at least one A* grade.
GCSE
This year’s cohort achieved an outstanding result of 82% of A* and A grades, with 51% at A*. This is the third consecutive year in which the proportion of A grades has exceeded 80%. The average score per entry is significantly higher than an A grade.
Candidature 123
Total entries 1331
Percentage grades A* and A 82
Percentage grades A* 52
Percentage gaining grades A to C in at least 5 subjects 100
Percentage gaining A to C in English 99
Percentage gaining A to C in Mathematics 100
Points per candidate 79
Points per entry 7.3
Mathematics is taken early. In 2010 100% of our Fourth Form students obtained grades A* to C in Mathematics. Grades A* and A were achieved by 98% of these students, with a record 68% achieving A*.
The year group set records for high achievement. 62 boys – half the year group – achieved A* or A throughout all their exams and an unprecedented 27 students achieved 10 A* grades or more. Of these, the top performers were: Jonathan Baker, Andrew Ball, Joe Chalkley, Michael Hollins, Jonathan Inglis, Christopher Milsted, Sanesh Mistry, Philip Ruis, Christopher Schon and Alex Shavick, all of whom had nothing lower than A* in their 11 GCSEs, whilst the highest scorers of all were Arran Bhatiani, Harry Hopla and George Tasker, who each achieved 12 A* grades.