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A-level results 2017: Art and Design

Art and design* A-level results for the UK in 2017, compared with previous years Art and design* A-level results for the UK in 2017, compared with previous years: cumulative Percentage of pupils who achieved (at least) each grade *These titles cover a range of related subjects Key Green: Higher than previous year Orange: Same as previous […]

A-levels 2017: Drop in top grades in reformed A-level subjects

Pupils are less likely to have received top grades in the 13 new, reformed A-levels, results show. Among 18-year-olds in England, the proportion achieving an A* or A grade in these subjects decreased from 25 per cent last year to 24.3 per cent this year, a fall of 0.7 points. Changes to the exam system […]

A-levels 2017: 4 Key Trends From The National Data

A-level results are out! Here’s what we know… 1. Overall performance in England The proportion of A* and A grades has increased by 0.4 percentage points, which is the first hike since 2011. This year 26.2 per cent of grades were an A or A*, compared with 25.8 per cent last year. On the […]

How to apply for re-marks and appeal A-level results

Pupils across England will get their A-level results on Thursday, and while most of them celebrate, their exams officers, teachers and school leaders will be deciding what to do about those who haven’t got the results they had been expecting. Each exam board takes a slightly different approach to the re-marking and appeals process, so […]

A-level results 2017: How Schools Week will report the day and what to look out for

Editor Laura McInerney explains how we are going to report Thursday’s A-level results For the past two A-level results days we focused our attention on secondary modern schools. We did this because readers told us they were sick of newspapers focusing on pupils who get all A*s, and given the last 12 months of grammar-fussing […]

A-level results 2017: Stories from secondary moderns

A-level results day is here! As usual, we will be celebrating everyone’s successes, but with a particular interest in secondary modern pupils. There are close to 300 schools in England that fall into the category of secondary moderns – non-selective schools that recruit from the same neighbourhood as a grammar school – according to education […]

Boys’ A-level performance set to rise this year, predicts academic

This year’s A-level results are expected to show a surge in performance among boys, despite a fall in top grades overall due to changes in the way the exams are sat. Previous trends indicate that boys could “improve their position relative to girls” this year, according to Alan Smithers from the University of Buckingham’s Centre […]

Errors in exam papers tripled this year, Ofqual report reveals

The number of ‘material errors’ in the design of A level and GCSE exam papers has more than tripled in a year, affecting 323,000 pupils this summer. Ofqual’s report on the 2016 summer exams shows the number of reported assessment material errors rose from 11 in 2015 to 37 this year. The biggest rise was […]

Exam re-mark requests plummet after Ofqual reforms

The number of exam grades that were changed after being re-marked has dropped by 25 per cent this year, with fewer schools and pupils also requesting reviews following sweeping reforms by Ofqual. Figures released this morning by the exams regulator show the total number of reviews of GCSE and A-level marks decreased from 572,400 in […]