A Level Examination Results 2024

Published:  Thursday 15 August 2024 at 16:05 BST

Framlingham College has praised the commitment and hard work of the school’s 2023/24 Year 13 cohort, who have achieved impressive results in this year’s public examinations.

Twenty-five per cent of grades were achieved at A* or A equivalent (BTEC Distinction * or Distinction), an increase on last year’s performance across the highest grades, with 12% of pupils gaining straight A*/A grades at A Level or equivalent and 43% of the cohort scoring at least one A*/A or equivalent grade. Fifty per cent of grades were achieved at A* to B or equivalent and over 75% of grades A* to C.

Principal Louise North commented:

“This year’s results present a positive uptick in the number of top A Level grades (A*- A). Our BTEC results in Business, Sports Science, Music and Computer Science are strong with many of our pupils studying a combination of A Levels and BTEC.

“I am delighted that ten of our Year 13 pupils achieved straight A/A* grades at A level or equivalent (BTEC Distinction* or Distinction) and there are some real triumphs for so many of our high achieving pupils taking places at universities including Leeds, Bristol, Durham and Cambridge. We are not a selective school however, and the spread of results reflects both this and the diversity of our pupil body. I am equally as proud of those pupils whose results might not be headline grabbing but for whom they are the culmination of sheer hard work, grit and determination.

“Of the 87 pupils in our Year 13 cohort, 74 pupils applied to university this year. As ever our pupils’ choice of course reflects their individual story. Several pupils withdrew from their firm and insurance offers in order to apply for a different course or university through Clearing. It is important to note that an increasing number of pupils across the country are choosing to wait for their results before then looking for a suitable course, i.e. they are opting for a post results application and using Clearing to do this. The days when Clearing was for those who had “failed” to achieve good enough grades, is over. Clearing is now considered a great opportunity either to trade up if your results are better than you expected or to look for a course knowing the exact results that you have achieved, rather than applying in advance. As Jo Saxton, Head of UCAS, says:

‘My real interest is in students having choice and I would be really interested in seeing if we could get to a place where students are making the choice between applying before they’ve got their results or afterwards. So rather than being the leftovers, it [clearing] actually becomes the positive choice. The largest group of students in clearing in recent years has been students who have actively put themselves there. They’ve given up another offer and put themselves into clearing, so they had offers and they dropped them. I think it’s a behavioural change. If we see that same kind of behaviour this summer, I would be really interested in us re-branding clearing, because it is increasingly a proactive choice.’

“Those who have chosen not to go to university have a variety of destinations planned. Two are taking up apprenticeships and some are taking Gap Years and will then decide whether to apply to university next year.

“We congratulate each and every one of our pupils and wish them happiness and fulfilment in their future endeavours.”

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