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Release from Bacup And Rawtenstall Grammar School
A Level Results 2005!
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 Students
at BRGS continued to achieve new records at A level this year.
The
number of students climbed to a new high of 228. They passed
833 A level exams out of 844 at grades A to E and, in addition,
passed 340 exams at AS level. The pass rate was 98.7%. Nearly
half the students joined BRGS sixth form from other schools and
many of them have done exceptionally well.
464
results were at grades A and B, a rate of 55% which is the
highest in the school's history.
The
average UCAS points per student was 390 points which was a
new record. This means that the average result achieved by
students at BRGS has more than doubled in the last 15 years
46
students achieved the excellent standard of three or more passes
at grade A. This was 20% of the year group; the national figure
is that 5% achieve three passes at grade A.
The
headmaster, Mr Marc Morris, said "Once again
this year parts of the media have been saying that A levels
are getting easier and that they are becoming worthless because
of the high pass rate. This shows that they do not understand
the system. It is designed to encourage students to work hard
and it rewards what they do well. The important point is that
they study at least four subjects in the first year and then
they can drop one for their second year. That is why the pass
rate is so high; students usually drop the subject they are
doing worst at. There is no point spending two years studying
and then getting no qualification at the end of it. It is a
good thing that so many are doing so well.
We are very proud of the standards our young people have achieved this year.
It has been very much a team effort by many schools as nearly half of our students
came from other secondary schools in the surrounding area who gave them an excellent
foundation at GCSE level on which to build their A level studies. The dedication
of our teachers and pastoral staff cannot be praised enough; they do make a big
difference to young lives."
 Outstanding
results came from the following; the numbers show how many grade
A passes the students achieved, a half being at AS level: |
 5½
Tashmeeta Ahad
Rachel Burgess
5
Marie Buckel
Jesse Duggal
Samantha Haigh
Zosia Rodak
Ben Smith
Sarah Sweeney
4½
Emma Barrow
Martin Bracewell
Poppy Cooper
Christopher Green
Hannah Lythgoe
Jennifer
Morton
Oliver Regan
4
Katrina Bishop
Ruby Burrow
Rachel Clarke
April Harper
Rachel Jones
Adam Taylor
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3½
Sabrina Alam
Hannah Caygill
Hannah Mosley
Louise Riley
Elizabeth Silkstone
3
Elizabeth Armstrong
Natasha Brown
Paul Byrne
Katherine Gledhill
Richard Haworth
Mark Hawthorne
Tessa Hull
Kathryn Lord
Dominic McCann
Sarah Munt
Lindsay Parkinson
Emily Pepperday
Jeremy Pierce
Carrie-Ann Roberts
Charles Robson
Lisa Stannard
Thomas Sykes
James Tattersall
Elizabeth Terry
Stephen Zsigmund
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The results mean that six students will enter Oxbridge
next year.
These six all obtained the top grades they needed in order
to claim the places they had won at Oxford or Cambridge University.
Their details are as follows:
L-R: April, Poppy, Jen, Jesse and
Tashmeeta |
Tashmeeta
Ahad reading Medicine at Newnhan College, Cambridge
Poppy
Cooper reading Archaeology & Anthropology at St
Hilda’s College,
Oxford
Jesse Duggal reading
Geography at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
April Harper reading
English at Exeter College, Oxford
Jennifer Morton reading
Law at Selwyn College, Cambridge
Adam Taylor reading
Engineering Science at Pembroke College, Oxford,
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Commenting on the results Director of Sixth Form Trevor
Elkington said, “ We are enormously proud of the
achievement of all of our students, but clearly winning at
place at Oxford
or Cambridge is a stunning success and we offer our congratulations
to the students involved. It is interesting to note that
whilst three of the successful students came right through
BRGS since Year 7, three – Tashmeeta, Poppy and Jesse – joined
us at the beginning of their sixth form from other local
schools who must share in the credit for this success.”
Read about GCSE Results 2005 >>>
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