gcse results 2012

24 January 2013 . 24 … Other languages increased by 13.7%.With the drop in A-level A*s and now today’s fall in GCSE A*-Cs, it looks like ministers will get some relief this year from the usual criticism that “exams are getting easier”. “I am really looking forward to coming back in September,” she said.Headmistress Claire Hewitt said she was “absolutely delighted” with her school’s results.Midhusa Mohankumaramangalam of Rosedale college, Hayes, writes to say he received eight A*s, two As and one B today and is "extremely happy with my results". Around 80% of children are from non-Welsh speaking homes.Foster Evans said: "Its obviously difficult to try and put these figures into some kind of context nationally at this early stage. They now have a D grade.

Good luck.Chris, if you're reading this, if you could tweet a picture of yourself and three or four other toothsome young students Here's a little more from Ofqual's Glenys Stacey, courtesy of my colleague Shiv Malik:What we have done this year and indeed last year actually is to hold the line on standards steady so that if the qualification and the type of student taking the exam are broadly the same the results will be broadly the same. And to everyone who got GCSE results today – well done.Results at four schools run by the academy chain Ark were down on last year, out of five Ark schools with children taking Where is the education secretary? One of education secretary's favourite headteachers says schools are united in condemnation of marking down GCSEsEducation secretary accused of 'tinkering' with marking system after first fall in number of A* to C grades in 26 yearsExam boards face an avalanche of appeals as schools describe grades as 'demoralising and gutting' for studentsSchools' anger focuses on shift of grade boundary in English between summer and winter exams after sharp fall in results Press Release Year 13 Exam Results 2012. Meanwhile Professor Steve Furber, chairman of the Royal Society computing in schools report, said the 12.9% increase in the John Cridland of the CBI puts today's fall in top grades down to "enhancing the rigour of our examination system", which he says will "help to improve performance compared with our international competitors". "The results are out - and the proportion of GCSEs awarded at least a C grade has fallen for the first time since the exam was introduced in 1988.There have also been drops in the proportion of English, maths and science A*-C grades.Today’s figures show that 69.4% of entries gained at least a C grade. My analysis would be that English is lower than we expected and it looks as if its a similar pattern. Gove and the coalition are playing with the lives of young people to further a political agenda for which they have no popular mandate.From 10 am yesterday I started to get messages from fellow headteachers across England to say that their English results were 10% or more below what they expected. We are full of diverse and different groups of people and today we have beaten the stereotype. All rights reserved. The minority spoil our area. Waiting for these results was harder than sitting the actual exams. Now there will be any reasons for the increases but certainly it does affect public confidence and the general view both of experts and the general public is that that can not be down to improvements alone – there must be something underlining.Stacey was asked at the beginning of the interview whether Ofqual told exam boards there should be no grade inflation this year and the thresholds for exam grades had to be lower.

Bethany English. This year’s A-level exam results from 473 ISC schools show that 18.0% of entries were awarded the grade A*. But it appears standards of achievement haven't changed one iota, it's just the way the standards of marking have changed. 24 January 2013. • The increase in entries was 35830 to 222852. If the reason for the drop in top grades is because politicians have determined they want exams to be tougher, they must explain this to the youngsters who will suffer when they compete in the future for jobs, apprenticeships, college and university places with those a year or two older.Russell Hobby of the National Association of Head Teachers said: "If it is the case that Ofqual's guidance is responsible, transparency demands that we are informed of the direct implications of this guidance on schools. It does affect public confidence, she says people feel it cannot be down to improvements alone.

After the cancellation of A-level and AS-level exams, that date was thrown into confusion. I also hope that it is not as bad as these articles seem to imply it might be.As a chair of governors at a secondary school with children in the system I see things from two sides. Sky News's Glen Oglaza helps out:Michael Gove is in 10 Downing Street. Before exams were cancelled, GCSE exam results were set to be released on Thursday 20 August 2020. The average number of points scored per pupil is then used as a tie break where schools have the same result.Schools marked AC are academies, schools with fewer than 30 pupils are not included.Pate's Grammar school, a high-achieving selective school in Cheltenham, scored 0% because pupils sat new English exams which the Department for Education does not recognise for the purpose of performance data.Similarly, Rushden Community College in Northamptonshire, scoring 6%, had entered pupils for English exams not counted by the DfE. Mehreen Sattar, 16, whose results included 7A*s, said: "The results of the students makes me feel proud. I asked the Department for Education but a spokeswoman said the government never commented on the locations of ministers. It's the only Welsh medium school in Wrexham where the whole curriculum (with the exception of English) is taught in Welsh. We’ll be wondering how it can have happened. Soon after exams were cancelled, the government's education secretary Gavin Williamson said it was hoped that results would be out by the end of July. • The results show a year-on-year decrease of 12.6% in the number of entries for Mathematics in Summer 2012. Sad times indeed.There are students at my school who achieved the marks for a C but had no realistic chance of gaining a B so focused their time on other subjects. She replied: "Not at all - our job is to make sure that exam results are right. "Mohammed Hashi, 16, who got 1A*, 5As and 3Bs, said: "The school is great, none of my friends were involved in the riots last year, but do I know people who took part?