Anxious teenagers across the Western Wards were waking up this morning and getting ready to collect their GCSE results.
Brookfield School said they were delighted that pupils’ maths GCSE results had dramatically improved by 15 per cent this year.
Head teacher Ria Allan
Pupils achieving A* to C grades for maths had increased from 72 per cent to 87 per cent – which was a huge increase after last year’s results showed maths results were down seven per cent.
Those taking English at the school in Sarisbury Green maintained 71 per cent passes at A* to C grades.
The overall pass rate of pupils achieving five or more A* to C grades at Brookfield, including Maths and English, has gone up nine per cent – to 69.3 per cent – despite concerns nationally that there could be a drop in results this year.
In total 350 pupils sat GCSEs and were due to head to the school to pick up their grade sheets during the morning with places at college resting on some of the results.
Head teacher Ria Allan said: “We’re absolutely delighted that we’ve seen such a significant increase in Maths.
“We’re pleased that the results in English have been maintained because these core subjects improve life opportunities for the students.”
Nationally more than 600,000 teenagers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland were getting the results of their GCSEs.
It was expected that there would be “turbulence” in grading.
Last year saw the first fall in the exam’s history in the proportion of entries awarded top grades. And since then, according to England’s exams watchdog Ofqual, papers for science subjects had been made tougher.
Marking and grading was also tightened for English and maths this year with pupils for the first time being awarded extra marks for good grammar and spelling in key subjects.
Last year, just over one in five exam entries (22.4%) was awarded either an A or an A*.