Over 50% of GCSE results at Charterhouse have been graded 9-8. This is the first year that all GCSEs at Charterhouse have been graded on the new 9-1 scale. A grade of 8 or above is the equivalent to the A*, and at Charterhouse over 50% of pupils’ grades are 9-8, an incredible achievement in this new grading system. Furthermore, 25% of all grades awarded were 9, the highest possible grade...
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Queen Margaret's Speech Day 2019 The girls at Queen Margaret’s, York (QM) quite rightly jump for joy as today’s GCSE results are announced. The impressive results continue to improve year on year, perfectly demonstrating how QM girls tackle challenges head on and achieve anything they set their mind to. This year it has been reported that GCSEs were ‘more difficult’, with the new grading...
Jasper Meyer - Pupil. Taunton School International are delighted to announce another very successful year of results from their one-year GCSE students, with many achieving A* grades (the highest grade possible). It is an incredible achievement for all the students to do so well in such a short space of time and in a second language. TSI students pass rate is 82% more than 15% higher than the...
Five of the Tonbridge School boys who achieved a ‘clean sweep’ of top grades with Headmaster James Priory Boys at Tonbridge School are celebrating an outstanding set of GCSE grades this summer, having achieved 91 per cent A* / A grades or equivalent, the school’s second highest performance on record. Sixty-five boys have each been awarded at least nine A*s or equivalent grades, a record for...
With some GCSEs graded in the old A* to G system and others according to the new 9-1 this year it is not immediately easy to compare results but Ryde School students have plenty to celebrate this morning with 17% of the new exams being awarded the very top grade of a 9 and over a quarter of all results being either A* or the equivalent (9 and 8) – the best figures ever for the very top grade. Over...
Bedford School is celebrating its best GCSE results since 2010. Over 68% of exams were graded at A*-A (or number grade equivalent), with a remarkable 22% of grades awarded at the new 9 grade, invented to distinguish those marks at the very top of the A* range (against 4.3% nationally). 11 boys gained straight A*s or their equivalent, and 30% of boys scored 7 A* grades or more. Head Master, James...
Girls at St Swithun’s School, Winchester are celebrating excellent examination results with 29.5% of entries achieving the top grade 9 in the new I/GCSE courses, compared to the national average of 4.3%. Half of the students achieved five or more A*/9 grades in a year where they took a mixture of the new courses graded numerically (9 to 1) and those with the legacy A* to G classification. Three girls...
Year 11 girls at Cheltenham Ladies’ College are celebrating the school’s best GCSE results for well over 10 years, with the top A* / 9 / 8 grades accounting for almost three quarters (74.3%) of all results. Despite 2018 bringing a turbulent year of GCSE reforms nationally, with many students’ results now coming under both the old A*-E and the new 9-1 grading systems, pupils at CLC have achieved an...
Pupils at the Royal Hospital School (RHS), Holbrook, are celebrating with some of the best GCSE results the school has achieved for many years. 95% of all entries were awarded the new grading of 9 to 4 representing a 5 % increase since last year. Headmaster, Simon Lockyer, said: “I am delighted with the number of pupils for whom hard work has paid off. These are our best GCSE results since 2011,...
RMS for Girls’ pupils have attained an outstanding set of GCSE and IGCSE results. This year, pupils’ results were recorded in both the new numerical format of 9 to 1, and the old letter scale of A to G. One in five of all grades awarded were 9 or A*, almost two in five grades were A*, 9 or 8, which is the highest proportion of top grades that the school has attained, and 60% of all grades awarded...
Fears about the impact of the tougher new grading system of 9-1 proved unfounded at Taunton School as 20% of all entries across 30 subjects resulted in the very top grade (9 or A*). 50% of grades awarded in the subjects which have switched were 9-7 (A*/A) and 32% of grades were 9-8 (A*).67 grades awarded were 9s. 87% of students gained at least five 9-4 grades (A*-C equivalent) including Maths and...
Felsted pupils have recorded outstanding results in their GCSE exams this summer, following on from excellent results in A Levels and record results in the International Baccalaureate. Headmaster, Chris Townsend, commented: “There are some exceptional results this year, with several pupils achieving at least six GCSEs at grade 9, ten achieving a full set of 7 to 9 grades (the equivalent of A and A*)...
Chloe Hunt, Henry Thompson, Lois Lee celebrating their A* and A grades St David’s College is celebrating success across the board with overall results at A*- A and with A*- C above the national average. It is the individual pupil stories that we celebrate most, with 93% A*- C pass rate in English overall and clusters of A*/A/B/C grades which open the door to pupils to choose exciting 6th Form...
Students at Kingswood School are this week celebrating record GCSE/IGCSE results. With 42% A*or 9/8 and 68% A*/A or 9/8/7, students have scored impressively across both GCSE and IGCSE examinations. 42 individual students achieved at least 5 A* grades or equivalent. Amongst many exceptional individual performances, the highest achievers with 11 A* or equivalent grades were Bridie, Henry, Ella and Numa;...
After a long wait, GCSE results were announced today in the UK and our girls yet again, achieved excellent results. Here are a few of the headlines: 50% of all grades were A*-A (or the equivalent grade 9 to grade 7) 91% of all grades were A*-C (or the equivalent grade 9 to grade 4) A third of all science grades (Physics, Chemistry and Biology) were A* 90% of pupils got at least one A*/ A or...
Royal Russell became the first school to ever have three of their teams reach the national finals in the same year. The girls’ football teams finished the summer season with the following awards: ISFA Under 11 Girls Independent Schools Cup – South East Region Winners 2018 ISFA Under 11 Girls Independent Schools Cup – National Runners Up 2018 ISFA Under 13 Girls Independent Schools Cup...