External Examinations Summary

External Examinations 2008:
(2007 figures in brackets for comparison)

1.         Year 13

• 10th position in both The Independent and The Guardian tables for grammar schools
• 119 (122) candidates entered 479 (496) examinations.  
• There were also 125 (111) AS results carried through from 2007 and January 2008
• A2 + AS results for the group give an average point score of 449.7 (432.87) per girl - N.B. Each grade is worth 20 points
• 79 (66) girls also gained the ASDAN qualification which is worth 70 points.   It raises the average point score per girl to 495.9 (471.1).

At A2:

• The success rate at grades A-E was 99.6% (99.4%).
• There were 212 (179) grade As, ie 44.3% (36.1%) of the entry.
• There were 140 (151) grade Bs, ie 29.2% (30.4%) of the entry.
• % at A+B grades: 73.5% (66.5%).
• 5 grade As: Sarah Hodgson, Minal Modi, Sarah Nash (3 girls)
• 4 grade As: Salma Anwari, Gurpreet Bahia, Louise Ballantyne, Alysha-Chanel Chouhan, Jenny Cooper, Laura Evans, Nicola Hall, Rachel Howle, Alice Macerola, Josephine Phillips, Eleanor Pszonka, Laraib Rana, Tavinder Randhawa, Charlotte Sewell, Emily Shackley, Katherine Steiner, Sumayya Ugharatdar, Natalie Yeadon (18 girls)
• Oxbridge: Laura Evans (Worcester College, Oxford for Physics), Katherine Steiner (Queens College, Oxford for Maths/Philosophy), Nicola Hall (Oriel College, Oxford for Biochemistry), Sarah Hodgson (University College, Oxford for Chemistry), Eleanor Pszonka (St Edmund Hall, Oxford for Law)
• Alice Macerola with one of top 10 marks in General Studies and top 5 for Biology.   Katerina Velicho achieved one of the top 5 marks for French.

2.         GCSE (Year 11 only)

2.         GCSE (Year 11 only cont.)
Short course exams count as half a full course.   Results include exams taken in earlier years.

• 6th position in The Independent table of all schools in the country (based on average point scores)
• 8th position in The Guardian table (based on average point scores)
• 35th in The Daily Mail table (based on percentage of A*+A grades)
• KS2 to KS4 contextual value-added of N.A. (1003.3)
• 150 (149) students entered 1875.5 (1580.5) exams.
• The success rate at grades A* to C was 99.3% (99.1%)
• 100% (100%) of the girls gained 5 subjects at grades A* to C
• 100% (99.3%) gained 5 subjects at grades A*-C including English and Maths
• Grades A* and A accounted for 73.6%(72.6%) of the entries
• The average point score was 651.35 (550.9)

This is using the system of A*= 58, A=52, B=46, D=40, E=34

• 34.8% (34.2%) gained A or A* in all subjects
• Girls with A*s in all of their 12.5 subjects: Salmah Lashab, Alison Melling, Gemma Rooney, Holly Wilson
• Vicky Solly achieved 200/200 for Maths written papers; Helena Kelly, Mashal Iftikhar and Samantha Huxley scored 199/200.

3.         GCSE (Year 10)
All the girls were entered for GCSE Science and at least the short course in R.E.

4.         Key Stage 3 SATs - % of Year 9 at each level