Posted on 08/14/2025 6:38:20 AM PDT by RandFan
Of more than 1.1m entries, 28.2% gained A or A* and 9.4% gained A*, though regional variations remain
Students in England gained record levels of top grades in this year’s A-level exams, driven by young men producing their strongest performances outside the pandemic years.
Ofqual, the exam regulator for England, shrugged off any suggestions of grade inflation, pointing to the lower proportion of 18-year-olds taking A-levels and saying that fewer low-achieving students had entered.
Despite the overall improvement, regional variations remain, with students in the West Midlands and north-east England recording lower grades overall than in 2024. The north-east remains the only region of England with average grades below pre-pandemic levels.
Among the more than 1.1m entries in England, 28.2% gained an A or A* grade, while 9.4% gained the top A* grade, both higher than in 2024 when 27.6% of entries got A and A*s and 9.3% gained A*s. In 2019, before the pandemic, 25.2% of entries received top grades.
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However, I can't help thinking what awaits after AI potentially eliminates all these jobs that you hear about. Are young people screwed? Is a university education worth pursuing? 4/5 years of debt and who knows what the landscape will be by then?
They need to choose what to major in very wisely I guess...
England, the land of pederasty and pomp, has been post-Christian since the days of Percy Shelley. Its heritage is in shambles, its glory defiled.
Agreed. And whatever field they go into, to keep AI from taking their job they need to be better at it than just copy/pasting. So if a student is going into software, he needs to stay focused on it and always improving his skills with a bit of an obsession, staying ahead of AI's ability to duplicate what others are doing.
Archie Bunker was right about England.
Many so called “A Students” in the US get the shock of their academically pampered lives, when they start college and finally realize “They don’t know nothing!”.
Many public schools today don’t allow failing grades to be given, preferring Social Promotions to avoid destroying the ego and self esteem of these students.
Akin to our dumbing the SAT down further every few years.
I would submit that a genuine "classical" university education is more than worth pursuing. It has been the backbone of civilization, which is why the left has so sought to undermine it and make it not just worthless, but the resulting credential so expensive that it is guaranteed to bankrupt the person who achieves it, while handing it out to all who pay as a gilt edged certificate of utter enslavement to leftist ideology, the higher the rank the more worthless the bearer of the certificate - just look at all the summa cum laude's from Harvard who lead the councils of the deep state. My current leading favorite is Harold Hongju Koh author of The National Security Constitution a TDS infused volume to defend the powers of the deepstate against a populist president executing the will of the People without regard to the constraints of the Global Order.
We need education, but at a reasonable cost and not to enrich globalist traitors and deepstate grifters.
It would be interesting to see how many of them are named Muhammad. I suspect not too many.
Many public schools today don’t allow failing grades to be given, preferring Social Promotions to avoid destroying the ego and self esteem of these students.
Especially if you’re good at playing games involving a ball.
“It would be interesting to see how many of them are named Muhammad. I suspect not too many.”
I suspect we’d see a lot of Dinesh, Rajiv, etc in that list.
So did the Muslims actually send all of their future doctors and engineers? Or more likely, did the Liberals simply change the grading system for the ego and self-image of the students yet again?
It doesn’t seem fair for the A level students to get the best grades....
We are in a world where the number of A-level students is increasing but SAT and other standardized test scores are dropping.
When I lived in Arkansas, the newspaper celebrated how well Arkansas students did on the SAT. The great majority of Arkansas high school students who intended to go to college took the ACT...only the small minority who were applying to colleges in an SAT state took the SAT and these would have been above-average students to start with.
Under current conditions, the proportion of highest scoring students is a political decision taken in advance of the testing ritual.
Yes they hand them out like candy..
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