BS: 2022 A level results

Subject: BS: 2022 A level results
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 19 Aug 22 - 10:47 AM

My old school Queen Elizabeth's Boys' Grammar School Barnet, is today celebrating its best-ever results, with seven out of every ten A-levels awarded the highest-possible A* grade.

The results are yet another golden achievement at the end of a year that has seen the School earn an ‘outstanding’ rating from Ofsted, win the Sunday Times’ coveted State Secondary School of the Year title, and secure 35 Oxbridge offers.

Among the many highlights of today’s results at QE are the following:
A* grades amount to 69.9% of all results – up 10.4% on 2021 (when there were Teacher Assessed Grades or TAGs), and up from 45.3% in 2019;
92.2% of results are at A*–A, again higher than during the pandemic and up 6% on 2019;
The A*-B figure is 98.3%, again higher than 2021’s TAGs. This is the 17th consecutive year above 95% for this benchmark figure;
71 of the 167-strong cohort (42.5%) have achieved straight A* grades;
All 50 Economics candidates are awarded either A* (37) or A (13); similarly, there are no grades lower than A for English, French, Geography, Latin, Music and Sociology;
Mathematics was taken by 139 boys (83% of the year group), with more than four out of five pupils (82.0%) achieving A*.

Subject: RE: BS: 2022 A level results
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 19 Aug 22 - 10:52 AM

This speaks volumes in favour of highly competitive Grammar Schools.

Subject: RE: BS: 2022 A level results
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 19 Aug 22 - 01:16 PM

Interesting that if you are held back at QE Grammar School by an unruly boy - he is without doubt a very clever boy - whereas if held back by the unruly at a Comprehensive - they most likely too be as thick as two planks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: 2022 A level results
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 19 Aug 22 - 01:22 PM

In 2014 it was reported that the school, despite not being of independent school status, was making regular forcible requests to parents for 'voluntary donations' in order to provide the facilities pupils needed, with parents contributing monthly, usually around £60. The school justified these requests by saying that state funding was not sufficient to provide a sound education and "the polish for boys to go on to the best universities

Effectively excluding those who cannot make those "donations". Still, in fairness, they have done well. The downside is that if they turn out people like Bonzo, they are definitely doing something wrong :-D

Subject: RE: BS: 2022 A level results
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 19 Aug 22 - 04:00 PM

That's funny, exactly what we Conservatives think of the labour rabble!!!

Subject: RE: BS: 2022 A level results
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 22 Aug 22 - 03:37 AM

Sigh...

Can't even come up with original insults. So much for grammar school education!

Subject: RE: BS: 2022 A level results
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 22 Aug 22 - 03:44 AM

Good result, but what is the use of good A level results if the schools are churning out corrupt, self-serving lying creeps who think they are entitled to have the troughs their snouts are firmly planted in at topped up at the expense of who they consider their inferiors. - We all know that the elitist school system was responsible for screwing up this country, with public schools like Eton being the worst responsible for garbage like johnson and is ilk.

Subject: RE: BS: 2022 A level results
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 22 Aug 22 - 04:46 AM

I went to a Grammer Skool, a very good one, but I don’t believe that even my greatest detractors would accuse me of being a ‘corrupt, self-serving lying creep’, and you have my firm assurance that my snout has never been in any kind of trough.

We Grammer Skool kids didn’t all grow up to become Tories, we aren’t all like Bonzo.