A & AS Level Results 2007
Press Release
Students surge forward at A level.
A record 54% of A levels this year at Birkenhead School were at grade A, significantly exceeding any improvement at national level. 74% of grades achieved were A or B, with a pass rate of 100%. More importantly for individual students, well over a third of them have walked away with 3 or more A grades, helping them to secure places on the most competitive university courses such as Medicine and Law.
Birkenhead School was ranked 2nd amongst all schools in the North West in The Times newspaper last year and Headmaster John Clark expressed his delight at the continued success of this year’s students: “The media have once again relished the opportunity to talk down A levels, but the kind of grades our students have been awarded in challenging subjects are not achieved without a great deal of ability, commitment and hard work; both they and their teachers deserve nothing but our congratulations.” As an example of Birkenhead School students’ outstanding performance in the traditional ‘hard’ subjects, Mr Clark cited Mathematics where, out of 28 students sitting an A level in Maths this year, 25 achieved an A grade, and 8 of those are still only in the Lower Sixth.
Top
performer was 18-year-old Billy Woods of Prenton who not only gained four A
grades in Maths, Further Maths, French and German but has additional A grades at
AS level in Chemistry and Latin and also achieved scholarship standard in his
two higher level mathematics papers set for entrance to Cambridge University. A
pupil at the School since he was 7, Billy has now done more than enough to
secure his place to read Mathematics at Selwyn College, Cambridge, starting in
October!
For the full details of this year's results, please use the links on the left
