GCSE English results 2014

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I understand that messing around with grade boundaries meant fewer students passing English this year.

But what about A*s? Did those figures dip too?

Certainly seems so. At dc school, ds was among those falling just short, and Brighton College are having a wholesale remark.

I am aware of some remarks that have gone up by up to 20 points - at least one grade.
I think the whole country should have a remark.

What about Eng Lit? Was that similarly affected?

The information I have says that A*s went up slightly this year in English and down slightly in Lit.

Just wondering if anyone has any other information.

Not what you are asking, but I do know someone who was one mark off an A for Language, had it remarked and got the A.

DD has had her English Language re-mark back.
She went up 18 points which is 7.5% : from a B to an A

I would suggest not taking any views about English GCSE grades until the re-marking is complete on 15th October.

I think that's right talking.

It's just that I was being asked my view for a radio thing with the tenor being English results were down. Whereas the info I had from the university where I work was that whilst pass grades were down, A*s were up ( on last year). But Lit was down (slightly).

I don't want to make an absolute tit of myself by getting the basics wrong ...

I think you should say that there is 'still movement'. I'm still angry about s&l being removed from GCSE but not IGCSE. It just doesn't seem fair. DS did extremely well in that before it was removed after he started the course. He ended up with a C but would of got a B or more with the s&l as he was 4ums off a B anyhow.

Why did talking go small? Bloody phone!

nostress yes, something like that would be good , although I guess I'm going to have to comment on how things stand to date.

I was just puzzled because the figures I had and the general feeling on MN and the media seemed at odds...

Word won't this give you the info if you compare 2014 with 2013.
www.jcq.org.uk/examination-results/gcses
The results are termed provisional. They also separate out by England / Wales/ NI

The only real difference seems to be in % of C in English Lang which have dropped. However these results are the amalgamation of the exam boards.

summerends
but provisional results in which 1/3 of kids in a school have the wrong English Language grade are worse than useless.

When the 95% significance margin is less than 1/4 of what my DDs mark moved by, the draft results are statistically bilge

We are awaiting DS1's re-mark result, he was less than a mark off the A*. One of his friends has just been up-graded by FORTY UMS

Talkin yes but the percentages are more likely to go up than down with remarks (like your DD, that's great BTW) and therefore if anything will show improvement from last year. What it does n't show, at least in the first part, are the individual board variations.

Omg!

summerends
and until AQA have had an autopsy of what went wrong .....

bear in mind that some of the ladies on my debt thread actually marked these darned exams, their comments about the system gave very early warning of the problems.

dd's English Lang remark went up by 21 UMS
B to an A.
quite a change ...

Yes but Summerends is right. The stats seem to show that A*s in English were higher this year than last. And set to increase.

So what this does show is that the doom mongering about this years English results weren't entirely true. It was just as easy to get an A*?