Examination Results 2009 - A Level

Rishworth is celebrating another successful year for its A level students, with the high quality of the grades being especially pleasing.

With all grades cashed in,

• the pass-rate (A-E) was 100%

• the ‘top end’ was again very strong, with the highest-performing students gaining their strings of A Grades

• Nearly one third of all grades were As

• 55% of all grades were As or Bs

• 71% of all grades were A-C

In terms of points,

• the average UCAS point-score per candidate was 293.4

• three students out of every four gained 240 points or more – i.e. 3 C Grades at full A level (or the equivalent)

• over half the students gained 300 points or more - i.e. 3 B Grades at full A level (or the equivalent)
  
• between a quarter and a third of the students gained 360 points or more, i.e. 3 A Grades at full A level (or the equivalent)

• one in five students gained 400 points or more, with one student gaining as many as 620 UCAS points

We are particularly pleased that so many students surpassed what might have been expected from their GCSE results.

At Rishworth we have not only academically gifted students in our Sixth Form but also some who are singularly disadvantaged – for example by not having English as their first, or even their second, language.  This makes our results all the more pleasing. 

Individually, the strongest candidates achieved their string of A grades, whilst the results of a number of students who had from the outset found A level work a particularly tough challenge exceeded all expectations.

This reflects very well on the efforts both of the students and of the staff.

In the interests of students’ entitlement to privacy, and in the light of the responses received in the past from parents to a school circular which asked for their views about the publication of examination results, Rishworth School is continuing its policy of not publishing without consent the results of individual students.