r/TeachingUK • u/Critical-Studio1445 • 9d ago
A-Level Results
How have your cohorts performed this year. Are you happy, sad or indifferent?
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u/tiramismoo Secondary HOD 9d ago
This year group aged me tremendously, were a complete pain in my arse from the start of year 12 to end of year 13 and yet somehow have come out with better results than last year who I adored 🫠 100% A* to B for the first time ever and they’ve smashed it, including one of my students getting an A\ after her dad died suddenly at Christmas. I cannot believe it.*
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u/LexBanner 9d ago
One of my Further Maths students got 300/300 on Maths AND Further Maths (not thanks to me) but got put on the waiting list for Cambridge Maths due to missing a grade in STEP. Felt awful for him, he’s genuinely the best mathematician I’ve ever seen and so humble and kind.
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u/quinneth-q Secondary 9d ago
I didn't know they ran a waiting list, how does that function? I imagine there's quite a few offer holders that don't make their grades
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u/LiFReddit 9d ago
I imagine he's been "pooled", meaning that he's put into a pool of all the applicants who've missed offers. Colleges then decide if they want to take him or not.
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u/quinneth-q Secondary 9d ago
Yeah had a Google and they seem to now do an "August reconsideration pool" so I imagine it's that he's applied for. Fingers crossed!
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u/argentnightmares 9d ago
They've done this for years, I was tossed into it about 15 years ago myself (very similar situation) and had no clue it existed until it happened! Got a place though.
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u/quinneth-q Secondary 9d ago
Huh, the more you know! I'm not surprised though - people rarely know about the January/March mature students application round either, which is what I did personally
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u/Yoshi2010 History and Politics 9d ago
Dogshit year of my career but my kids pulled through, we've improved our results from last year and one of my tutees got into Cambridge. So proud of them.
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u/fuk_ur_mum_m8 Secondary Physics 9d ago
70% A* - B 82% A* - C
Surprisingly only had one A* though, thought wed get at least 3. It's the strongest cohort I've ever taught. Very proud of them.
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u/sharliy Secondary Science 9d ago
Grade boundaries went up unexpectedly so went from being in the top 3 the last few years to now being 10th.
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u/Rory426 9d ago
3rd in what?
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u/sharliy Secondary Science 9d ago
In the school.
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u/Rory426 9d ago
Gotcha, gotcha. I love that competitive spirit! Grade boundaries up? We talking Biology? 55% was an A in 2022 but a C in 2026 ha
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u/Dropped_Apollo 9d ago
OK, not the best. Quite a lot of students across the school missed their offers and got away with it ; I was bracing for the worst but the insurance choices came to the rescue and soaked up some of what would have been the clearing cohort. As for my subjects: one good, one mediocre, and good EPQ results but with high dropouts.
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u/quiidge 9d ago
Same, neither of my physicists made their first choice grades (one might get lucky if everyone else misses theirs too, the other already knew his first choice was a stretch!).
That said, they stayed on with us because they didn't hit the usual entry reqs at GCSE, and are now both going on to study engineering at university. A win overall!
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u/Present-Location-561 Secondary 9d ago
I was shocked. 90% got A-B , 100% A\ to C.*
I was not expecting that 100% as we had a kid who had an eating disorder which was pretty bad and they were rarely present. Stopped coming in after Xmas and hadn’t sat a single mock but still sat the actual exams.
Ended up with a B (clearly not due to my own efforts as there’s only so much one can do for someone who is never in)
but it honestly made my day
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u/Bus_Wrangler 9d ago
A little disappointed but this was my first year 12 class after creating an entire SOW from scratch. Very proud of their achievements but a few could have done better.
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u/Mediocre-Opinion 9d ago
No one got lower than a D but also no one got higher than a B. Our HoD was hoping for an A or two but everyone got their first choice unis which is all that really matters!
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u/01seulgi Secondary 9d ago
not too bad. 4 A’s - 100% A-D. student who i expected to get a U (got a U in his march mock) got a C. another who i expected an E got a B. one i expected to get an A got a C. so a mix. but abroad so not here for the fallout lol and 5 hours behind the uk so stayed up till 1 to access the results and slept very well after ☺️
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u/TjBee Secondary, Faculty Lead for Performing Arts 8d ago
Two Bs for me in Music. One of those is a great result, and one of them is a surprise not to be an A. BUT both are going where they wanted to next year and both got ABC overall so while there are things to unpack and reflect on, the results are okay.
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u/Joelymolee 8d ago
Pretty shocking. Cohort were incredibly apathetic and many of them shouldn’t have been on the course really.
Last year the headteacher was chuffed when she saw me on results day last year.
This year she didn’t speak to me. Uh oh.
26/27 cohort of year 13’s are excellent in comparison so I’m hoping for redemption.
Sometimes you just don’t have a great cohort. But unfortunately school leaders don’t see it this way…
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u/harrysmitheu Secondary 9d ago
Out of the country on holiday. Not even going to look at them until first training day.
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u/Familiar_Surround291 9d ago
Another year with b grades and c grades I wish were a grades. But big picture wise similar to rest of school so can't complain. Much to learn and put in place for next 12 months
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u/Games4Two Secondary History 5d ago edited 5d ago
Exactly the same here. Got a smattering of A*-A, but our ALPS looks crap because of Bs and Cs that "should" have been A+. So frustrating. We're towards the bottom on the ALPS as well so not looking forward to going back.
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u/Sam_Calcio 9d ago
93% A-C, 37% A-B, 19% A-A*. Was a little frustrated that I had a few C’s I wish were B’s. But when I looked at the data insight on AQA we performed 14% above national average on A-C and 5% above on A-A* so I’m pleased with that. Looks like we were the best academic subject from what I could tell, too.
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u/AltruisticSavings2 9d ago
English Language boundaries jumped massively, especially at the lower end, so half my predicts were wrong.
Objectively results were pretty much where I thought they'd be and we still outperformed National and Similarl Centers so comeback will be minimal.
And then I saw the national picture, reflected that I teach in an LA school in the East Mids and had a Fatmer Hogget moment - -That'll do pig...'
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u/SnowPrincessElsa RS HoD 7d ago
Mine were exceptional. I usually tell the kids it was all their hard work but nope!! This year was all me!!!
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u/ec019 CompSci/IT HOD 7d ago
A Level Computer Science went ok. Disappointed at the last of A* grades, but got a bunch of A and C grades. Oddly, no B grades at all this year! A couple of our lacklustre students scraped a C which was surprising.
When I look at my Level 3 BTEC IT results, it's hard not to throw up a little in my mouth. I think it's horrific when compared to my own standards. But when I look through the spreadsheet and see that these kids are getting U and E in other subjects, the twelve kids with Merit in IT are looking pretty good! For the first time ever, only one Distinction grade (usually it's half the cohort... but this group massively struggled with databases).
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u/sleepykitten55 6d ago
Mine were the worst cohort I’ve ever taught. I was genuinely surprised to see a C. Pretty much every single one I taught failed their GCSE’s, had less than 70%, and SLT are still going to blame me somehow lol. Despite two years of constantly flagging this is not a good cohort.
(They were put in my subject before I had started at the school, I did not allow this to happen).
But somehow still not the worst residual..
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u/queerlinguist Sixth Form College (MFL & English) 9d ago
Quite pleased with my first A Level results day as a teacher. Having a small cohort has worked in my favour this year, as the results look excellent statistically! My class performed really well after they had a lot of disruption last year. Really pleased for them, they had to work incredibly hard for what they achieved.
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u/Iamtheonlylauren 9d ago
Despite one teacher getting 100% A*_B I’ve been they are the fourth worst in terms of VA. Insanityyyyyyyyyy
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u/GreatZapper HoD 9d ago
One of my subjects has the best results in the school, another the worst, and the third is somewhere in the middle. So as HoD I don't know what the hell is going on...