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Why are my A-Level grades so much better than my GCSE grades?

Why are my A-Level grades so much better than my GCSE grades? Everyone says that A-Levels are so much harder than GCSEs, but here is what I got:

My A-Level grades:
A – Psychology
A – Sociology
B – Media Studies

(AS-Level General Studies grade C)

My GCSE grades:
A* – Sociology
A – Psychology
B – Drama And Theatre Arts
B – Law
B – Science (Single Award)
B – Citizenship Studies (Short Course)
C – English
C – English Literature
C – Geography (IGCSE)
C – History (IGCSE)
C – Mathematics
C – D & T: Food Technology
E – German

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Reply 1

unfathomableuser

Only you can answer that

Reply 2

Gnomes&Knights

Original post by _jarv_

That's nothing bro, look at mine;
GCSE: AAAABBCCCD
GCE A level: A*A*Ab
Another guy;
GCSE: AABBBBCC (maybe 5 Bs)
GCE A level: A*AAb

Reply 3

_jarv_

Original post by unfathomableuser

Only you can answer that

Well you might be right but I still have no idea why. What would be the possible reasons?

Reply 4

Gnomes&Knights

Original post by _jarv_

Well you might be right but I still have no idea why. What would be the possible reasons?

You studied easy subjects at GCE A level. You probably wouldn't have got those grades if you did all facilitating subjects (Sciences, Maths, History, Philosophy, English Literature, Economics and Foreign Languages). I'm not sure if Economics is a facilitating subject but it is as hard as one.

(edited 9 years ago)

Reply 5

anonwinner

My A Levels are gonna be better than my GCSEs too. For me, it's because I've actually started to take my education seriously, I now realise what grades I need for university, and I've actually started to revise.

Reply 6

German123

Original post by _jarv_

That is a good improvement seeing as A levels are harder. Anyway from your specific A level subjects you had fantastic grades for them at GCSE and maybe that is the reason for those A level grades? just guessing.

Reply 7

Gnomes&Knights

Original post by anonwinner

There's actually many cases of people performing better at GCE A level than at GCSE and I witnessed a lot of them at college. Some didn't even put much effort because they were doing easy subjects.

Reply 8

Gnomes&Knights

Original post by _jarv_

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I don't see why you think your GCE A levels are more impressive than your GCSE. They both look equally impressive in my opinion.

Reply 9

_jarv_

Original post by Raymat

I don't see why you think your GCE A levels are more impressive than your GCSE. They both look equally impressive in my opinion.

Really? But all those C's...

Reply 10

Gnomes&Knights

Original post by _jarv_

Really? But all those C's...

But that A* and A for GCSE. You don't even have an A* for your GCE A levels so how does it look 'better'? Also the C for General Studies.

(edited 9 years ago)

Reply 11

midgemeister7

No, you did worse.

In the subjects you took at A Level you got AAB, but in those same/equivalent subjects at GCSE you got A*AB, so you could argue that your results went down

are you complaining?

Original post by midgemeister7

No, you did worse.

In the subjects you took at A Level you got AAB, but in those same/equivalent subjects at GCSE you got A*AB, so you could argue that your results went down

Just out of interest what did you count as the 'equivalent' subject to media? As I didn't do media at GCSE

Reply 14

_jarv_

Oh and A* at A-Level didn't exist when I did them

Reply 15

midgemeister7

Original post by _jarv_

Just out of interest what did you count as the 'equivalent' subject to media? As I didn't do media at GCSE

I counted Theatre Studies as equivalent, even though they are different of course but similar in a vocational sense

Reply 16

anonwinner

Original post by Raymat

There's actually many cases of people performing better at GCE A level than at GCSE and I witnessed a lot of them at college. Some didn't even put much effort because they were doing easy subjects.