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Results are A* OK for Stratton high fliers
Students celebrate their A-level grades on results day.
Overjoyed students were celebrating their A-level results at Stratton Upper School yesterday.
The school had its best set of results ever, with a massive 98 per cent pass rate.
And more than three quarters of the 30 subjects on offer achieved a 100 per cent pass rate, with 38 per cent of all grades falling in the top A* to B bracket.
Headteacher Neil Bramwell said: "Last year our results were strong, they were a good set of results and there's a noticeable improvement this year so we're very pleased.
"Both students and staff have worked hard for the grades they have achieved and are very deserving of the successes they have obtained."
Some students were celebrating achieving the new A* grade – but Mr Bramwell, who leaves the school at the end of this month, said he had mixed feelings about its introduction.
He said: "In some senses it's a pity. The more grade boundaries we have the more students are going to be sitting one mark off that boundary, saying 'if only'. If you get 89 per cent and get an A, how much different are you really from that student with 90 per cent and an A*?
"At the same time I'm not that convinced that it does anything for the universities in their recruitment. We can certainly give them some strong indication of those students who are going to sail into those A grades rather than just scrape their way in, and in a way the A* is about those very strong candidates."
Top performers included Chloe Barnes and Carrie Anderson, who each got two A* grades, an A and a B and Becky Dixon who achieved an A*, an A and a B.
Carrie, of Fairfield in Gamlingay, said: "The new A*s are making me feel quite happy! I was expecting to get two As and two Bs. I checked the website so I knew I'd got a place at my university but I didn't know what results I'd got. I was shocked."
Carrie is set to read BioMedicine at Durham and hopes to practise medicine in the future.
Chloe, who lives in Potton Road, Biggleswade, was also ecstatic over her results.
She said: "I'm really happy, I was really surprised. I needed two Bs and a C to get it. I thought I'd do a little bit better thant hat, but not this well!
"I think the A* grades are good, because if you work really hard you'll get rewarded. It was a lot of work, but worth it."
She will be studying Georgraphy in Swansea.
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