Have any schools said what new GCSE grades they will require for A levels yet?

[Balletgirlmum]

I'm trying to gauge what the new requirements will be. For example most schools in my area require you to have got a B in a subject to do it at A level. A couple require an A grade for maths/science.

One school require 5 B & 6 C to continue to A levels.

None have yet published wherher they will require the new grades 4 or 5 in lieu of a C or a 6/7/8 in lie my of a B/A

I'm wondering what other schools are going to be doing.

I think that this thread shows one thing clearly. That nobody has a bloody clue how it's going to work, even this close to D day. Or is that 5-6 day?

I've just looked at the 6th form requirements for the only state grammar school in our area. The entry requirements for that school are lower. 3 Bs & 3Cs. B grade in any subject wanted to be studied at a level except for maths where A is required.

Agree bit. It's a farce.

It's hardly difficult, though, is it? Sixth colleges will make offers based on conservative readings of the equivalences. If they undershoot their recruitment, they will just accept people who missed the offer by 1/2/3/whatever points. If they seriously undershoot, they'll just out an advert on the back of buses saying "XXX College, now recruiting, why not give us a ring?"

Conditional offers are a pain, and the system that has grown up around university admission, with hacks upon hacks to deal with anomalies (clearing, adjustment, continuing application) would be far better replaced by everyone applying with their A levels in their hands. It's regrettable that a similar system has grown up at the Y11/12 boundary. But making out that it's some sort of impossibly complex problem is overstating it: there will be some turbulence, but places will be filled with roughly the same people as would have filled them under the previous system. Anyone old enough to remember similar prognostications of doom with the changes from O/CSE to GCSE, or from norm- to criteria-references A Levels, will will a great sense of either deja vu or ennui.

The local grammars here have different points systems which all basically equate to 4As and 4Bs. You must have A in the subjects you want to study. That's in a county with loads of grammars.

A*/A/B in the subjects that you want to do at A level is needed at DS's school. They have said that they will continue to ask for the top grades with the new GCSEs and will expect a 7-9 grade if they want to study it at A level.

A*/A/B in the subjects that you want to do at A level is needed at DS's school. They have said that they will continue to ask for the top grades

at B being a top grade.

I think noblegiraffe reckons that the modal AS grade for people with a B in maths at GCSE is U. It's not as bad in other subjects, but back in the day it was usual to ask for A at O Level in order to A Level, and without getting involved in all the tired debates about comparability a B at GCSE certainly isn't an A at O Level, of that we can be certain.

Ricardian I suppose a B is one of the top grades when they go from A-G.

I suppose a B is one of the top grades when they go from A-G.

But B is the absolute floor for doing A Level. Is there a serious school, anywhere, that will take people onto an A Level with a C without massive extenuating circumstances? And aren't they the people Nick Gibb quite rightly wants to stop fromdoing it?

Ricardian I agree. DS was told that they preferred A/A but if you had A, A*, B they'd consider it depending on what your subject teacher from the school thought. I don't know if they let you often or not, DS didn't need to ask for the ones he wanted.

I think that the jump from GCSE to A level is too hard to take one where you got a B.

Bear in mind thst not everyone needs A at A level either. At ds's school you need a C to do A level and so far most kids have got to the further/higher education places they wanted. It's not a 6th form that high flying academic types would choose, but not all kids want/ need that.

That's one of things I like about DS's 6th form - they do A levels and BTECs so there is more choice for all.