732 pupils get clean sweep of 9s in their GCSEs

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Remember that thread about only a tiny handful of pupils getting all 9s?

According to one local newspaper (unfortunately they don't give a reference):
There were only 732 pupils across England who scored a clean sweep of top 9 grades in all their GCSE

www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/16594185.gsce-results-day-2018-get-the-latest-live-updates-from-schools-across-bucks/

Brighton College say five of their pupils gained 10 Grade 9s so the overall figure sounds roughly correct.

www.theguardian.com/education/2018/aug/23/gcses-boys-close-gap-on-girls-after-exams-overhaul

1 at my school ( and 2 with all 9s bar 1 getting an 8)
Ordinary but sought after comprehensive in the North.
Really happy with our results

That’s 0.1%ish. Yeah bloody easy! It’s quite poor that 99.9% of pupils didn’t do better really!

I had assumed my daughter wasn't included in the 732 - but with ten 9s and one 8 - she is probably in an even smaller group.

The very proud Mother in me would love to know what that is.

However my DD with her ability in statistics might be able to to take the figures available and work it out for herself :)

18 students at my old school got all 9s

Surely the pp with 14 subjects has a dc at private school ...

This year was a record year, so belies the fact that the exams are harder. If they were indeed harder, the number getting the very top score (9, not 8. A not A) should have been lower, instead it was higher.*

But that doesn’t necessarily apply to the whole country. What % of pupils getting the top grade in maths do you think would be sufficient to differentiate the top pupils from the rest Moominatrix?

rememberatime it took me a bit of sifting the semantics to work out which students were included but yes, your DD is definitely included and is that much further up the national scale. Many congrats to her.

Is this figure for those who got 7 or more 9s? DD's school had four girls achieve this- great result for a non-selective school.

Another one here from the high school on the same town as the local Grammar

www.clitheroeadvertiser.co.uk/news/head-is-proud-of-ribblesdale-s-remarkable-results-1-9315839

namechanged all credit to those kids and have you seen how many have opted for the grammar school for A2?

Mominatrix you are not taking into account that cohorts of students can change significantly even within selective schools. Perhaps last year they had a longer tail end for example.

It’s the progress measure which is more interesting to find out.

The grammar is the only school in the town with a 6th form, other choices require travel. The local high schools in the town and surrounding areas are good schools, not made poor by having a grammar school taking the top % at age 11.

DS2 'only' got six grade 9s (the rest were grade 8s) so he has just missed out on the club of 732, but we're very proud of him anyway.

I'm surprised Noble hasn't been along to correct the maths here. 700 odd out of half a million students is not 0.1% it's actually 0.0015, that a 1.5 students in 100,000. I beg to differ but this is differentiating the very able. And the grade boundaries in some subjects were 10% between a 9 and an 8.

Congrats TheThird! I'm still ploughing through the other thread and missed this. Superb!

cubscout I think there are a very few people who will not be happy until the top score is one that only about two people get. We will end up with a Grade 12, probably.

Huge congratulations to rememberatime , goodbye and all the other Mums of star performers. Enjoy your prude, your children have earned it.

No cub you have to multiply that by 100. So it’s about 0.14.

No 9 for you!

Cauliflower no, no 9 for me! Blame it on exhaustion of the day!

I did 15 odd back in the day! No idea why.

@pieceofpurplesky no its a bulk standard Academy. They have a set up where if you are Set 1 for Maths, you automatically study and take Further Maths and Statistics
If you get certain percentages in y9 MFL they invite you to do Latin. Pupils are expected to attend extra lessons at lunchtime or after school to squeeze it all in. They had about 10 students take 14 exams and 30+ who took more than 10

If a pupil did 14 including science x3, Maths x2, statistics and computer science could they still be in the 700 or so exclusive "All 9s" club, having failed English, MFL, Latin, RE and 2 Humanities?

howabout, I don't know the answer to your question but surely failing English Language would be a problem for many 6th forms and colleges, and schools are judged by passes specifically including Maths and English not just the number of 9s. I know someone whose DC's plans are subject to change because while he got lots of good grades, he got 5 not 6 in English Language (a pass but not his first choice 6th form college's requirement). His first choice 6th form might still come back with an offer but I think he would be better off going with the one who said they would love him to go there to study his chosen subjects - including Art (he's a talented artist) and English Literature (which he did do well in despite the Language 5).

Sunnymeg, 14 sounds like rather a lot but 7, 8 and 9 are all still good grades and so long as he can do his preferred courses at his preferred school or college next.

"Surely the pp with 14 subjects has a dc at private school ..."

I doubt it. Private schools and grammar schools generally have more sense in this area at least.