Sentences with phrase «c grades»

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And in last summer's GCSE results, girls outperformed boys in the number of A * to C grades in sciences.

To be eligible for support, schools needed to have examination results above the then Key Stage 4 floor target of at least 30 percent of pupils achieving 5 A * - C grades at GCSE including English and mathematics.

With just 12 per cent of LAC achieving five A * - C grades including English and maths at 16, the scale of the task is huge.

The slight decline in C grades is again linked by the exams regulator to some movement of pupils likely to get this grade to other qualifications.

It published a report by Mr Andrews's officials on Monday which said a drop in the number of students getting C grades was «unjustifiable and almost certainly unfair».

Overall, this year's GCSE results showed the first fall in the A * to C grades since they were introduced.

This is the first time that the number of pupils scoring five A * - C grades including English and maths has fallen since 2004 - 05, when the government changed the way it collects the figures.

Last year, Welsh pupils closed the gap with the rest of the UK in the highest grades, but overall A * to C grades fell for the first time in over a decade.

He said the concentration on A to C grades went against the ethos of the GCSE system which was introduced to replace the GCE and CSE examinations.

The number of students achieving five or more A * to C grades, including English and maths, has risen from 58 per...

In the state sector, 83 per cent of pupils at Charter Academy in Southsea, Hampshire, this year achieved five A * - C grades, but only received an average grade of C -.

It found that in grammar schools in 2014/15, 97 per cent of non-disadvantaged pupils and 93 per cent of disadvantaged pupils achieved 5 A * - C grades at GCSE including English and Maths, compared to 84 per cent of non-disadvantaged pupils and 64 per cent of disadvantaged pupils at the country's top comprehensive schools.

In August 2017 73 % of our students achieved five A * - C grades or equivalent including English and Mathematics and 27 % of all grades awarded were A or A * grades.

For the last three years, two thirds of pupils in Wales got A * to C grades - and results in England have now dropped to the level here.

Just 28 per cent of the 47 pupils at Saxmundham Free School, in Suffolk, achieved five or more A * to C grades, including English and maths.

An education trust is launching an external review after less than a third of pupils at one of its free schools achieved five or more A * to C grades in its first set of GCSE results.

Prof Alan Smithers, director of the University of Buckingham's Centre for Education and Employment Research, said the 2.1 percentage points decline was the biggest drop in A * - C grades since GCSEs were introduced in the late 1980s.

Principal Ruth Robinson said the school had been «one of the worst in the country» as recently as 2009, when just 9 per cent of learners achieved five GCSE A * to C grades, including English and maths, but said its reputation was «lagging behind the reality» of recent improvement.

In 2015, 27 of the Schools Challenge Cymru schools saw an increase in the number of pupils achieving five A * - C grades at GCSE.

Exam board WJEC said if you look at the whole academic year instead, 65.5 % of 16 year olds got A * - C grades compared with 63.7 % for 2014/15.

The north east of England was doing slightly better than Wales last year but now for A * to C grades, all of the northern and midland English regions are not performing as well as Wales.

Last year, only 14.9 % of pupils got five A * to C grades, which included English and maths - and it was easily bottom of a table of Schools Challenge Cymru schools, 9 % below the next one.

That year, IES Breckland saw 40 per cent of its pupils achieve five or more A * to C grades, including English and Maths.

57.6 % of 15 - year - olds achieved at least 5 A * - C grades at GCSE including maths and first language English or Welsh.

Last year, 57.9 % of pupils in Wales got five or more GCSEs at A * to C grades, including English or Welsh and maths.

The government plans to convert these schools — who fail to ensure that 60 % of pupils gain five A * to C grades and don't have a «credible» improvement plan — to academy status.

Secondary schools will be subject to intense scrutiny if fewer than 35 % of their pupils get five C grades at GCSE, including English and maths, and fewer students are making two levels of progress between the ages of 11 and 16 than the national average.

The achievement gap between boys and girls A * to C grades has also widened on last year but narrowed in last week's A-level results.

The English Baccalaureate is a measure of pupils achieving A * to C grades in a range of subjects classed by the government as the core of a good education - English, maths, two science subjects, a language, and either history or geography.

The 2016 GCSE results are out and show a sharp fall of 2.1 percentage points in the pass rate, down to 66.9 per cent for A * - C grades.

At Tauheedal 95 per cent of pupils achieved five A * - C grades, including English and maths; while at West London free school, founded by journalist Toby Young, 76 per cent of pupils achieved the same benchmark.

London has the best results, with 72 % achieving A * to C grades, compared with 65 % in the Yorkshire and Humber region.

Staff at Bournville School, in Birmingham, are celebrating today after an eight per cent rise in the number of pupils achieving five or more A * to C grades, including English and maths.

Maths and English curriculum time have expanded as well, although the incentives to enter pupils for these qualifications, and for them to achieve C grades, were already strong before 2010.

Results released to GCSE pupils on Thursday showed there had been an increase in the percentage of students receiving A * to C grades.

In English, A * to C grades increased 3.7 percentage points to 65.4 %.

They reached their conclusions by analysing decisions made by 62 heads who saw the C grades their students earned at GCSE increase by 45 per cent or more over eight years at failing schools.

In broadly stable results, the proportion of A * to C grades rose to 69 %, up from 68.8 % last year, but A * grades fell by 0.1 percentage points.

In the school's first set of GCSE results this summer, 86 per cent of pupils achieved five A * to C grades including English and maths.

Education Secretary Michael Gove denied political interference in this year's GCSE results, as A * - C grades fell for the first time in the exam's history.

In February, Mr Gove announced that secondary schools in England would no longer be judged on the proportion of pupils who achieved five or more A * - C grades at GCSE, including English and maths.

Those who got A * to C grades in a language, a science and a humanities discipline, like history or music, in addition to English and maths would qualify for the qualification.

For the first three years, at least, threshold targets for secondary schools (60 per cent of pupils achieving 5 A * to C grades), and for primary schools, (85 per cent of pupils achieving level 4 in English and maths) will become the new floor target and will reinforce the importance of hitting targets rather than focussing on pupil progress.

For selective colleges, C grades will often close the admissions door.